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Jayanth Katta Cloud Infrastructure
Engineer

AWS infrastructure engineer building resilient, scalable cloud systems with Terraform and GitOps. I write about what I learn — from IAM and VPCs to EKS, GitOps, and beyond.

AWS Terraform GitOps EKS / Kubernetes GitHub Actions IAC Linux Health & Longevity Cricket
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01 — About

The person behind the posts

I'm an AWS Infrastructure Engineer at an organization mid-migration to the cloud. My focus is building the foundations that teams rely on — networking, IAM, compute, storage — done right, with infrastructure-as-code from day one.

I believe in understanding before doing. This site is a public record of that process: structured learning, hands-on challenges, and honest writeups of what worked and what didn't.

Outside of cloud architecture, I think a lot about Metabolic health, play Cricket for fun, and how compounding works — in systems and in life.

30
Day AWS Terraform Challenge — completed
AWS
Cloud platform of choice
IaC
Terraform-first infrastructure approach
∞
Still learning, always shipping

02 — Writing

Featured posts

All Posts ↗ Technology Health Financial Thinking Life Photography
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May 18, 2026
Day 30 — Multi-Environment GitOps Drift Detection with Automated Remediation
Concluding the 30-day challenge by building a system where the running state in AWS always reflects the desired state in GitHub, automatically healing unauthorized changes.
Terraform · GitOps ↗
May 17, 2026
Day 29 — GitOps Patient Zero: Continuous Delivery on AWS EKS with Argo CD and Kustomize
Setting up a production-grade GitOps CD pipeline using Argo CD and Kustomize on EKS. The entire application stack state declared in code, driven from GitHub as the single source of truth.
EKS · Argo CD ↗
May 16, 2026
Day 28 — Building a Highly Available 3-Tier AWS Application with Terraform and GitHub Actions
A Node.js frontend, Go backend API, and PostgreSQL RDS — deployed with full CI/CD through GitHub Actions across multi-AZ infrastructure inside a custom VPC.
AWS · 3-Tier ↗
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Health, Life & More →
Beyond cloud infrastructure: posts on metabolic health, personal finance, photography, and life observations. A broader look at what I'm thinking about.
Life · Health

03 — Skills

Tools I work with

Cloud & IaC
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • S3 Remote State
  • AWS Organizations
Containers & Orchestration
  • EKS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Argo CD
  • Kustomize
  • ECS
CI/CD & GitOps
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitOps
  • Drift Detection
  • Pipeline Automation
Networking & Security
  • VPC Design
  • Transit Gateway
  • IAM
  • Security Groups
  • ALB / NLB

04 — Contact

Let's connect

I write about cloud infrastructure, share what I'm learning, and occasionally post about health and life. If you're working on interesting cloud problems or just want to talk AWS — reach out.

I'm especially interested in conversations about multi-account AWS architecture, Terraform at scale, and GitOps patterns in production environments.