Hey, I'm Lior Benjman — IT & DevOps Engineer.

I help teams ship with confidence by building reliable delivery platforms, automating infrastructure, and nurturing observability-led feedback loops. This blog documents the practices and experiments that influence my work.

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About me

Why DevOps?

Why DevOps? I started in IT, fixing things that broke — usually on Thursdays. At some point, I realized I’d rather automate the chaos than chase it. That’s where DevOps hooked me. Now I build pipelines, spin up containers, and write scripts that make systems (and people) behave. For me, DevOps is just turning “it works on my machine” into “it works everywhere — even on Thursdays.”

Who am I?

I’m Lior, 25 years old, living in Tel Aviv, I love my 2 big dogs - Magnus the Rottweiler and Bonnie the Labrador. -They make me happy 24/7 (CI/CD of joy)
I worked 3 jobs during my military service in the Israeli army as an IT specialist.- You can't call me lazy ;)
Started my Computer Science degree 2 years ago while working fulltime jobs in IT and still maintained a 91 GPA.- You can't say I am not fully motivated to learn!

Current focus

• Automating everything that can be automated — CI/CD, monitoring, and the occasional coffee break.
• Building reliable cloud workflows with Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions.
• Turning messy scripts into clean pipelines that actually deploy (on purpose).
• Helping teams ship faster, crash less, and sleep better.

Let's connect

I’m always happy to compare notes on infra-as-code, platform roadmaps, or the best way to run incident reviews.

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Spotlight Analyses

Blueprint: GitOps for regulated environments

How a financial services SRE team moved to declarative delivery with progressive rollout gates and auditable change histories.

15 minute read • Pipeline Architecture

Incident drills that harden feedback loops

A repeatable tabletop playbook that connects observability, alert routing, and post-incident analytics across distributed teams.

12 minute read • Resilience Engineering

Measuring platform value beyond velocity

Data-informed metrics for platform teams that balance golden paths, self-service, and guardrails without slowing innovation.

9 minute read • Platform Strategy

Tooling Breakdowns

Kubernetes cost controls that engineers love

Practical cost guardrails with admission controllers, dynamic quotas, and reliability budgets that teams actually adopt.

Guide

Policy as code for Terraform without friction

Ship reusable Cloud Native Application Bundles with OPA and scorecards that defend production without blocking day one.

Hands-on Lab

Observability workouts for platform squads

Operator dashboards, SLO personas, and lightweight alert budgets to keep service golden signals actionable.

Playbook

Cultural Patterns

Scorecards that elevate psychological safety

Building blameless operating reviews that nudge system-level thinking and celebration of steady, reliable delivery.

Conversation Starter

Empowering platform guilds

Lightweight guild rituals that raise shared standards without the ceremony overhead of a steering committee.

Deep Dive

Career ladders for DevOps generalists

Aligning growth paths, skill matrices, and mentoring structures so cross-functional engineers stick around.

Toolkit