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title: "DevTips - Quick Developer Tips and Best Practices"
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# DevTips

One tip per page, each small enough to try before your coffee cools. Mostly the fixes and flags I wish someone had told me sooner.

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[![Understanding Kubernetes Services: ClusterIP vs NodePort vs LoadBalancer](/_astro/hero.DBNjupL__148EQW.webp)](/devtips/post/kubernetes-services-clusterip-nodeport-loadbalancer)

## [Understanding Kubernetes Services: ClusterIP vs NodePort vs LoadBalancer](/devtips/post/kubernetes-services-clusterip-nodeport-loadbalancer)

-   [DevOps & Kubernetes](/devtips/categories/devops--kubernetes)
-   23 Dec 2025
-   04 Mins read

If you're working with Kubernetes, you've probably noticed that Pods come and go, and their IP addresses keep changing. That's where Services come in. They give you a stable way to keep your apps acce

[#Kubernetes](/devtips/tags/kubernetes)[#K8s Services](/devtips/tags/k8s-services)[#ClusterIP](/devtips/tags/clusterip)+5 tags

[Read Tip](/devtips/post/kubernetes-services-clusterip-nodeport-loadbalancer)

[![Managing Terraform at Scale with Terragrunt](/_astro/hero.DUZZoi07_ZRPUOh.webp)](/devtips/post/terraform-terragrunt-wrappers)

## [Managing Terraform at Scale with Terragrunt](/devtips/post/terraform-terragrunt-wrappers)

-   [Cloud & Infrastructure Automation](/devtips/categories/cloud--infrastructure-automation)
-   21 Dec 2025
-   03 Mins read

The problem with Terraform at scale Duplicated code across environments If you're managing infrastructure with Terraform across several environments or projects, you've probably hit the point

[#Terraform](/devtips/tags/terraform)[#Terragrunt](/devtips/tags/terragrunt)[#Infrastructure as Code](/devtips/tags/infrastructure-as-code)+4 tags

[Read Tip](/devtips/post/terraform-terragrunt-wrappers)

[![HashiCorp Pulls the Plug on CDKTF](/_astro/hero.BBIsBB2t_Z22hNwP.webp)](/devtips/post/cdktf-deprecation-hashicorp-terraform)

## [HashiCorp Pulls the Plug on CDKTF](/devtips/post/cdktf-deprecation-hashicorp-terraform)

-   [Cloud & Infrastructure Automation](/devtips/categories/cloud--infrastructure-automation)
-   15 Dec 2025
-   03 Mins read

CDKTF is officially deprecated The deprecation announcement Well, it finally happened. HashiCorp (now owned by IBM) officially deprecated the Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF)

[#Terraform](/devtips/tags/terraform)[#CDKTF](/devtips/tags/cdktf)[#HashiCorp](/devtips/tags/hashicorp)+6 tags

[Read Tip](/devtips/post/cdktf-deprecation-hashicorp-terraform)

[![Tracing Microservices with OpenTelemetry](/_astro/hero.BOHz8WyH_Z1IEpz3.webp)](/devtips/post/tracing-microservices-opentelemetry)

## [Tracing Microservices with OpenTelemetry](/devtips/post/tracing-microservices-opentelemetry)

-   [Observability & Monitoring](/devtips/categories/observability--monitoring)
-   23 Jun 2025
-   03 Mins read

Why monitor your microservices? The complexity of distributed systems If you're juggling multiple services, it's hard to track how they work together. OpenTelemetry lets you follow one reques

[#OpenTelemetry](/devtips/tags/opentelemetry)[#Microservices](/devtips/tags/microservices)[#Distributed Tracing](/devtips/tags/distributed-tracing)+4 tags

[Read Tip](/devtips/post/tracing-microservices-opentelemetry)

[![Organizing Terraform with Modules](/_astro/hero.5dVJEd3X_Z16rLJ8.webp)](/devtips/post/organizing-terraform-modules)

## [Organizing Terraform with Modules](/devtips/post/organizing-terraform-modules)

-   [Cloud & Infrastructure Automation](/devtips/categories/cloud--infrastructure-automation)
-   16 Jun 2025
-   03 Mins read

Why organize your Terraform code? Where the complexity comes from If you're using Terraform to build out your infrastructure, you know how quickly things get complicated. Every new environmen

[#Terraform](/devtips/tags/terraform)[#Infrastructure as Code](/devtips/tags/infrastructure-as-code)[#Modules](/devtips/tags/modules)+4 tags

[Read Tip](/devtips/post/organizing-terraform-modules)

[![Securing CI/CD with IAM Roles](/_astro/hero.Bl9B2DZz_ZDIuXQ.webp)](/devtips/post/securing-cicd-with-iam-roles)

## [Securing CI/CD with IAM Roles](/devtips/post/securing-cicd-with-iam-roles)

-   [DevOps & DevSecOps](/devtips/categories/devops--devsecops)
-   09 Jun 2025
-   03 Mins read

Why secure your CI/CD pipeline? Why pipeline security matters Your pipeline holds credentials for every environment you deploy to, which makes it one of the most valuable targets you own. A s

[#CICD Security](/devtips/tags/cicd-security)[#IAM Roles](/devtips/tags/iam-roles)[#Least Privilege](/devtips/tags/least-privilege)+4 tags

[Read Tip](/devtips/post/securing-cicd-with-iam-roles)

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### [Categories](/devtips/categories)

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