https://www.balkandevops.com/Recent content on BalkanDevOpsHugoen-usMon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.balkandevops.com/posts/helm-deployment-patterns/Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.balkandevops.com/posts/helm-deployment-patterns/Most teams deploy Helm charts the way they did on day one and never revisit it. Here are the three patterns I've run in production, and where each one breaks.https://www.balkandevops.com/posts/mlflow-on-kubernetes-community-chart-not-enough/Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.balkandevops.com/posts/mlflow-on-kubernetes-community-chart-not-enough/The community MLflow chart is great for a demo and useless for production. It knows nothing about your Key Vault, your Workload Identity, your Traefik ingress, or your certs. Here is the layered Helm pattern I run instead, where the open source chart stays untouched and your cloud specifics live in a thin layer on top. Plus the one missing package that breaks Workload Identity on day one.https://www.balkandevops.com/posts/taming-azure-ai-foundry-with-litellm/Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.balkandevops.com/posts/taming-azure-ai-foundry-with-litellm/Azure AI Foundry is amazing until you have to manage it for more than one team. Here is how LiteLLM became the gateway that fixed my key sprawl, capped everyone’s spend, and turned key rotation from a fire drill into a thirty second job.