Sam Gabrail

I help DevOps engineers level up to Platform Engineering + AI. 18+ yrs. K8s, Crossplane, AI agents. Free 7-day crash course ↓

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

Free 7-Day Platform Engineering Crash Course. One email a day. Terraform, Kubernetes, OPA, GitOps, Backstage, plus a 6-month career roadmap. Hands-on labs included.

https://t.co/04C2vIq1lf

#PlatformEngineering #DevOps

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

🚀 Free live webinar: Terraform on AWS, Zero to Production in 60 min.
Fri Jun 19, 12 PM ET. Live build: TLS, Networking, LB, EC2 modules → real terraform apply.
Register: https://t.co/X2j9WmLfOZ
#Terraform #AWS

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

Crossplane 2.0 removes the claim and XR split, adds namespaced XRs, and turns Crossplane into a stronger platform automation engine. Watch: https://t.co/ScVmMhnG1t #Crossplane #Kubernetes #DevOps

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

Package Crossplane APIs, deploy with Argo CD, promote dev to prod, detect drift, and roll back through Git. https://t.co/ggy2dydVNi #Crossplane #GitOps

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

Priya's logistics team installed a 4-year-stale focus blocker.
Hosts file rewrite blocked the status page mid-incident.
Productivity tools touch DNS, hosts, firewall, proxies.
Same blast radius as security software, zero of the review.

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

Devi, platform engineer at Tilepay (Series B payments), pasted same k8s debug context into Claude 6x/day.
Stack traces, kubectl flags, cluster shape.
Wired 3 custom skills from 9arm-skills repo to team runbooks.
CrashLoopBackOff debug went from paragraph to one sentence.

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

The Spring Founder Edition has been live for 2 weeks.

The 20% lifetime discount with code SPRINGFOUND26 ends May 31.

After that: $99/month standard.

Start here: https://t.co/eewTZCJQU1

#PlatformEngineering #DevOps #SpringFounderEdition

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

What do you actually build in TeKanAid Academy?

• IDP with Backstage + Crossplane + Vault on K8s
• GitOps with ArgoCD
• RAG pipelines
• AI agents with guardrails
• Production Vault clusters

Not toy projects. Real portfolio systems.

https://t.co/eewTZCJQU1

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

“The labs are phenomenal... focusing on the ‘why’ and what problem it actually solves.”

— Maor Klir, Platform Engineer

That’s the goal: not just videos, but real labs where you break, fix, and understand.

Founder pricing: https://t.co/eewTZCJQU1

#PlatformEngineering #

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

Karpenter ate a logistics startup's nightly ETL.
Spot pool, default consolidation, jobs evicted mid-run.
Compute went up, not down.
Jobs aren't replicas.
Killed pod = retry whole unit.
Fix: consolidationPolicy: WhenEmpty on the job NodePool.
Taint it.

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

When I was a HashiCorp Sr. Solutions Engineer, I heard the same question over and over:

“Where do I start?”

That’s why I built TeKanAid Academy.

Hands-on labs. Portfolio projects. Clear paths for Vault, Terraform, Kubernetes, and more.

Assessment: https://t.co/4m96QAxujn

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

SRE watched payment service get killed every 90s for two days.
Liveness probes timing out.
CPU pinned processing backlog.
K8s restarts pod, drops in-flight work, backlog grows.
Probe shared the busy thread pool.
Split liveness onto separate lightweight handler.
Bleeding stops.

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

Launching today: TeKanAid Academy Spring Founder Edition.

New Premium subscribers get 20% off forever through May 31 with code SPRINGFOUND26.

3 bootcamps
11+ courses
84+ labs
5 cert paths
Puzzles + direct support

Start here: https://t.co/eewTZCJQU1
#PlatformEngineering

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

3 replicas does not mean zone redundancy.

K8s will happily pack all 3 pods into one AZ. When that AZ goes down, your service goes down.

Fix: topologySpreadConstraints with https://t.co/WYFXn7RzYK + maxSkew: 1.

Make zone spread explicit.

#Kubernetes #SRE

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

Manual secret rotation does not scale. This demo shows how Akeyless automates rotation and bidirectional sync across Azure Key Vault, Vault, and MySQL without app changes. https://t.co/CdPwJznf7W #DevSecOps

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

Crossplane can turn a simple DB claim into 13 AWS resources behind the scenes. This episode covers XRDs, compositions, claims, and functions for true self-service infra. https://t.co/TVOWARw5eo #Crossplane #Kubernetes

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

Crossplane manages AWS like Kubernetes. Install providers, apply YAML, build a full VPC stack, then watch drift get auto-reverted by reconciliation. https://t.co/tqn1A9GCZ9 #Crossplane #Kubernetes #AWS

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

Platform engineering without ticket queues. Crossplane makes infra Kubernetes-native with reconciliation, no state files, and multi-tenant RBAC. https://t.co/9kE0oIFXBb #Crossplane #Kubernetes

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

Modern PAM isn’t just a vault—secure Kubernetes, AWS, SSH & DB access with JIT permissions, dynamic secrets, and session recording.
https://t.co/1bUwqWeRI2
#PAM #ZeroTrust #CloudSecurity

[Sam Gabrail @Sam_Gabrail]

AI agents don’t need the cloud. They need boundaries and control.

Run autonomous AI agents fully inside Kubernetes with kagent. On‑prem and platform‑ready.
https://t.co/u4Ymha8nLU

#kubernetes #aiagents #platformengineering