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João Rocha — DevOps Engineer

DevOps engineer from Portugal. I write about Kubernetes, CI/CD, Docker, self-hosting and homelab infrastructure — practical guides from things I actually run and break.

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about

I'm João Rocha, a DevOps engineer from Portugal.

This site is a collection of my thoughts, experiences and guides about IT, self-hosted / homelab setups and DevOps tooling — Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD and the infrastructure that runs it all. I hope you find it useful.

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experience

DevOps Engineer @ Axians
2025 — Present now

Creating and maintaining various production-grade Kubernetes clusters, implementing monitoring and observability, configure cloud infrastructure and deploy applications.

LinuxKubernetesKustomizeTerraformHashicorp VaultGCPGrafanaArgoCDPrometheus
DevOps Engineer @ CEiiA - Centre of Engineering Innovation and Product Development
2023 — 2025

Maintained Linux infrastructure, self-hosted services and monitoring. Migrated workloads to containers and introduced infrastructure-as-code.

KubernetesHelmGCPTerraformDockerGitLab CIPrometheusLokiGrafanaArgoCDHashicorp VaultDevSecOps
IT Support Technician @ CEiiA - Centre of Engineering Innovation and Product Development
2020 — 2023

Fixing hardware and software issues, maintaining Linux infrastructure, assisting users directly with their issues and writing documentation.

LinuxWindowsmacOSAnsibleDocker