Ahmad Nurhidayat
Cloud & DevOps Engineer building resilient infrastructure — Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and platform engineering.
Posts
EMQX Production Deployment via Helm
Enterprise MQTT broker on Kubernetes with JWT auth, TLS, auto-scaling, backup/recovery, and Prometheus monitoring.
Gateway API Migration — Helm Chart for Ingress to Gateway API
Automate Ingress to Gateway API migration with a Helm chart that creates HTTPRoutes and HealthCheckPolicies for multiple apps.
GKE Cluster Creation — Best Practices Guide
Production-grade GKE cluster setup: node pools, security hardening, networking, and environment-specific configurations.
Grafana Alloy Migration — Replace Promtail with Alloy
Step-by-step migration from Promtail to Grafana Alloy for log collection and trace ingestion in Kubernetes.
Loki Distributed on Kubernetes — Helm Production Guide
Production Loki deployment with GCS backend, SimpleScalable mode, retention policies, and optimized ingestion limits.
Tempo Distributed on Kubernetes — Helm Production Guide
Production Tempo deployment with GCS storage, OTLP/Jaeger/Zipkin receivers, metrics generator, and vParquet4.
Projects
GKE Workload Identity Configuration
2025Complete guide to configuring Workload Identity for secure, keyless authentication between GKE workloads and Google Cloud services.
Implementing Grafana Alloy and Migration to New Version using Helm
2025A unified telemetry collector designed to streamline observability by consolidating multiple data collection tools into a single solution.
GitOps & Kubernetes Automation with Cilium
2025Advanced Kubernetes orchestration using ArgoCD for GitOps, Cilium CNI for networking, and automated workflows.
Platform Engineering Lab Series — Full Internal Developer Platform
202515 hands-on labs building a production-grade Internal Developer Platform with Backstage, Argo CD, and Crossplane — from Kubernetes fundamentals to a fully integrated IDP.
Documentation
50+ technical guides on Kubernetes, cloud architecture, CI/CD, and platform engineering.