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Runbook

Documented steps from real infrastructure work - bare-metal servers, Kubernetes clusters, self-hosted platforms, and DevSecOps pipelines.

Docs

Every runbook here documents something that was actually run - the exact commands, the decision points, and the failures encountered before things worked. This is not a course, not a reference manual. It is what was learned by doing, written down immediately after the work was finished.

Browse by Domain

  • Bootstrap Install any tool from scratch - Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Jenkins, and more. One file per tool: manual steps + a one-shot automation script.

  • Linux OS-level administration - server setup, users, storage, networking, firewall rules, hardening, and system-level troubleshooting.

  • Containers Dockerfile patterns, multi-stage builds, layer caching, container registries, and runtime configuration.

  • Kubernetes Cluster setup, workloads, networking, storage, security, autoscaling, GitOps, and debugging. The largest and most active domain.

  • Networking DNS, TLS, load balancing, Nginx/HAProxy, ingress and gateway controllers, VPNs, and firewalls.

  • Delivery CI pipelines, CD deployments, artifact management, GitOps, and identifying how a project runs before containerizing it.

  • Security Secrets management, vulnerability scanning, RBAC, OS hardening, and certificate workflows.

  • Observability Metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting - knowing what is happening inside running systems.

  • Cloud AWS-focused: IAM, VPCs, EC2, EKS, and managed services. GCP and Azure sections grow over time.

  • IaC Terraform workflows - provisioning, remote state management, and reusable modules.

  • Self-Hosted Services deployed and operated personally: Nexus, SonarQube, Jenkins, Nextcloud, and more. Every setup documented from scratch.

The Engineering System

This runbook is one layer in a connected personal engineering system. Each layer has a distinct role.

Layer What it contains Where
Nectar Concepts, theory, and fundamentals - studied before anything is built nectar.ibtisam-iq.com
Runbook ← you are here Documented steps from real infrastructure work - commands run, problems hit, and how they were solved runbook.ibtisam-iq.com
SilverStack Reusable Bash scripts, Kubernetes manifests, and Docker artifacts - the Runbook links here whenever a command depends on a hosted script github.com/ibtisam-iq/silver-stack
Blog Distilled write-ups of what was built and what was learned blog.ibtisam-iq.com

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