Blog posts authored by Pranjal Tripathi at TO THE NEW Blog

Kubernetes Cluster Backup & Restore on S3 Bucket using Velero

Pranjal Tripathi — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:39:13 +0000

Introduction Someone deletes a namespace by accident. A migration goes sideways and you need last week’s cluster state back, not just today’s. A node group gets torn down before anyone thought to check what was running on it. Kubernetes does not protect you from any of this by default etcd holds your cluster’s state, but […]

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Designing Scalable AI Systems: RAG vs Long Context Trade-offs Explained

Pranjal Tripathi — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:24:26 +0000

Introduction Every LLM you’ve ever used is stuck in the past. It knows everything up to its training cutoff and nothing after. It also does not know about your internal documents,your private codebase,or what just happened 5 mis ago. So if you want a model to actually be useful in a real time production environment,you […]

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Running GitLab CI at Scale: Setting Up Kubernetes-Based Runners

Pranjal Tripathi — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:50:43 +0000

Introduction As the project grows and traditional CI runners running on static virtual machines or shared runners often struggle to keep up with increasing workloads. Jobs may queue up, builds start taking longer than expected and developers are left waiting. what’s the solution? So, instead of using traditional executioners we can leverage the GitLab Runner […]

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Implementing Istio Service Mesh in Kubernetes

Pranjal Tripathi — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:44:13 +0000

Introduction As the Kubernetes cluster grows it becomes very difficult and complex to manage the communications between different microservices as the N numbers of services interacts in real time and identifying issues like failed connections, packet loss, unstable connections becomes challenging. Istio Service Mesh provide solutions to these challenges by creating infrastructure layer that handles […]

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Setting up Kiali in Istio: Visualize your mesh

Pranjal Tripathi — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:14:36 +0000

Introduction Nowadays, Managing the Microservices that are interacting with each others in real time becomes challenging especially when the clusters are running with hundreds of these microservices. There’s always somethings breaking up or causing performance issues and for looking into these issues you need to go thoroughly with the traffic flow, need to understand where […]

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Deploying Egress Gateway in Kubernetes : Istio

Pranjal Tripathi — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:14:57 +0000

Introduction Nowadays, In microservices architectures we have started using service mesh like Istio for managing and securing the traffic flow inside Kubernetes cluster ,In Istio service mesh we use Ingress and Egress gateways for routing the inbound and outbound traffic. In this blog we will be looking on how we can use Egress gateway to route […]

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Terraform Meets GitOps: Setting Up Atlantis on AWS for Automated Infrastructure Management

Pranjal Tripathi — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:09:43 +0000

Introduction Infrastructure automation is a crucial part of modern DevOps workflows, enabling teams to manage cloud resources efficiently using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Terraform is a widely used IaC tool, and when paired with Atlantis, it provides a seamless, GitHub-driven workflow for managing infrastructure changes. Atlantis integrates Terraform with version control systems like GitHub, GitLab, […]

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Step-by-Step Setup: Grafana and Prometheus Monitoring using Node Exporter

Pranjal Tripathi — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 09:33:40 +0000

Introduction Monitoring is a crucial aspect of managing cloud environments, ensuring that you can track the health, performance, and reliability of your infrastructure. Prometheus and Grafana are powerful tools commonly used for monitoring and visualization. Prometheus excels at collecting and querying metrics, while Grafana provides an interface for visualizing this data through customizable dashboards. Using […]

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Send CloudWatch alarms to Slack via AWS Lambda

Pranjal Tripathi — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 07:56:12 +0000

Introduction One of the key factors in maintaining production uptime is the implementation of effective monitoring and alert systems. Integrating AWS CloudWatch with Slack using AWS Lambda allows you to receive real-time alerts in your Slack channels, keeping your team informed and responsive. This blog will guide you do this integration using a AWS Lambda […]

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