# DevOps & Infra, forgehouse

> Ship and stay up. CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes setups, monitoring and the self-hosting playbooks that cut our own cloud bill.

These parts come from running our own server, not from a slide deck. The shared goal is turning deployment from an event you brace for into a routine, with defensive scripts and well-built pipelines doing the boring, reliable work.

## Who this shelf is for
- Founder paying cloud bills they suspect are twice what they should be
- Solo operator self-hosting search and tooling to cut SaaS costs
- Developer whose deploys still feel like a gamble every time

## Where to start
Start with the Self-host Infra Kit; if cost is the pain, Cost Optimization is the fastest way to find money already being wasted.

## Skills (33)
- [Bash Defensive Patterns](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/bash-defensive-patterns/), Master defensive Bash programming techniques for production-grade scripts.
- [Bazel Build Optimization](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/bazel-build-optimization/), Optimize Bazel builds for large-scale monorepos.
- [Changelog Automation](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/changelog-automation/), Automate changelog generation from commits, PRs, and releases following Keep a Changelog…
- [Cost Optimization](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/cost-optimization/), Optimize cloud costs through resource rightsizing, tagging strategies, reserved instances, and…
- [Deployment Pipeline Design](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/deployment-pipeline-design/), Design multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, security checks, and deployment…
- [Devops](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/devops/), Infrastructure and deployment patterns for CI/CD pipelines, Docker, cloud platforms, and…
- [Distributed Tracing](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/distributed-tracing/), Implement distributed tracing with Jaeger and Tempo to track requests across microservices and…
- [GitHub Actions Templates](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/github-actions-templates/), Create production-ready GitHub Actions workflows for automated testing, building, and…
- [GitLab CI Patterns](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/gitlab-ci-patterns/), Build GitLab CI/CD pipelines with multi-stage workflows, caching, and distributed runners for…
- [Gitops Workflow](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/gitops-workflow/), Implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and Flux for automated, declarative Kubernetes…
- [Helm Chart Scaffolding](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/helm-chart-scaffolding/), Design, organize, and manage Helm charts for templating and packaging Kubernetes applications…
- [Hybrid Cloud Networking](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/hybrid-cloud-networking/), Configure secure, high-performance connectivity between on-premises infrastructure and cloud…
- [Incident Runbook Templates](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/incident-runbook-templates/), Create structured incident response runbooks with step-by-step procedures, escalation paths…
- [Istio Traffic Management](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/istio-traffic-management/), Configure Istio traffic management including routing, load balancing, circuit breakers, and…
- [K8s Manifest Generator](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/k8s-manifest-generator/), Create production-ready Kubernetes manifests for Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and…
- [K8s Security Policies](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/k8s-security-policies/), Implement Kubernetes security policies including NetworkPolicy, PodSecurityPolicy, and RBAC…
- [Linkerd Patterns](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/linkerd-patterns/), Implement Linkerd service mesh patterns for lightweight, security-focused service mesh…
- [Meilisearch Selfhost](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/meilisearch-selfhost/), Self-host a typo-tolerant, Turkish-correct, multi-tenant instant search engine at a flat monthly cost.
- [Monorepo Management](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/monorepo-management/), Master monorepo management with Turborepo, Nx, and pnpm workspaces to build efficient…
- [mTLS Configuration](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/mtls-configuration/), Configure mutual TLS (mTLS) for zero-trust service-to-service communication.
- [Multi Cloud Architecture](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/multi-cloud-architecture/), Design multi-cloud architectures using a decision framework to select and integrate services…
- [Nx Workspace Patterns](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/nx-workspace-patterns/), Configure and optimize Nx monorepo workspaces.
- [On Call Handoff Patterns](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/on-call-handoff-patterns/), Master on-call shift handoffs with context transfer, escalation procedures, and documentation.
- [Prometheus Configuration](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/prometheus-configuration/), Set up Prometheus for comprehensive metric collection, storage, and monitoring of…
- [Reverse Proxy Benchmark](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/reverse-proxy-benchmark/), Benchmark Caddy, Nginx and Traefik and price self-host vs managed before you commit.
- [Sentry Seer Integration](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/sentry-seer-integration/), Sentry + Seer AI debug entegrasyonu production error pipeline kurulumu (SDK init, source map…
- [Service Mesh Observability](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/service-mesh-observability/), Implement comprehensive observability for service meshes including distributed tracing…
- [Shellcheck Configuration](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/shellcheck-configuration/), Master ShellCheck static analysis configuration and usage for shell script quality.
- [SLO Implementation](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/slo-implementation/), Define and implement Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) with…
- [Terraform Module Library](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/terraform-module-library/), Build reusable Terraform modules for AWS, Azure, and GCP infrastructure following…
- [Turborepo Caching](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/turborepo-caching/), Configure Turborepo for efficient monorepo builds with local and remote caching.
- [Uptime Kuma Monitoring](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/uptime-kuma-monitoring/), Self-host uptime monitoring with a public status page and alerts, at a flat cost for any number of sites.
- [WP-CLI & Ops](https://forgehouse.ai/skills/wp-wpcli-and-ops/), WordPress WP-CLI operations

## FAQ

### Can this shelf actually cut my cloud bill?
That is what Cost Optimization and the self-hosting playbooks are for: including Customer Meilisearch Selfhost, which replaced a paid search service with a self-hosted one in our own stack. Real migrations, with the gotchas written down.

### We deploy rarely and fear it, what helps first?
Deployment Pipeline Design. It turns deploys from an event into a routine: staged pipeline, rollback path, checks that run before anyone holds their breath. Frequency follows safety.

### Are the Kubernetes pieces opinionated or adaptable?
Opinionated defaults, documented escape hatches. Manifests and Bazel Build Optimization carry the choices we run in production, with notes on where and why you would diverge.

## Related topics
- [Development](https://forgehouse.ai/catalog/development/), 58 pieces
- [Security](https://forgehouse.ai/catalog/security/), 22 pieces
- [Data & Analytics](https://forgehouse.ai/catalog/data-analytics/), 27 pieces

https://forgehouse.ai/catalog/devops-infra/