DevOpsGuide
Monitoring Rust Services With Grafana Dashboards Explained
Build a Grafana dashboard for a Rust service from Prometheus metrics: the RED panels, PromQL for rate, errors and p99, saturation panels, variables and alert rules.
14 min read
Topic
DevOps
From cargo build to production: CI pipelines, slim Docker images, Linux services and what to watch afterwards.
DevOps
Docker Compose for a Rust Service With Postgres and Redis
A Compose file that runs a Rust service with PostgreSQL and Redis for local development, with healthchecks so the app starts after its dependencies, volumes, networks and a clean teardown.
3 min read
DevOps
Prometheus Metrics Exported From a Rust Service Step by Step
Expose Prometheus metrics from a Rust service: counters, gauges and histograms with the metrics crate, an Axum /metrics endpoint, labels to keep small and useful metrics to start with.
3 min read
DevOpsGuide
Rust on Kubernetes Probes Resources and Graceful Shutdown
Run a Rust service on Kubernetes properly: a Deployment with liveness and readiness probes, resource requests and limits, graceful shutdown with SIGTERM, and a rolling update strategy.
15 min read
DevOpsGuide
Deploying Rust to AWS Lambda With Cargo Lambda Tooling
Build and deploy a Rust function to AWS Lambda with cargo-lambda: project template, lambda_runtime handler, ARM builds, deploy, invoke locally, cold starts and limits.
15 min read
DevOpsGuide
Deploying a Rust Service to Fly io Step by Step From Scratch
Deploy a Rust web service to Fly.io from scratch: Dockerfile, fly launch, fly.toml with health checks, secrets, a Postgres attachment, scaling and rollbacks.
14 min read
DevOps
Rust Docker Builds That Recompile Everything and the Fix
Why a one-line change recompiles every crate in Docker, and the fixes in order of effort: copy order, a dummy main trick, cargo-chef, BuildKit cache mounts and a pinned base.
3 min read
SecurityGuide
Reproducible Builds in Rust and Verifying a Binary
A reproducible build produces the same bytes from the same source anywhere. See what breaks it in Rust (paths, timestamps, toolchains), how to fix each, and how to verify a binary.
14 min read
DevOps
Static Linking Rust for Scratch Images With Musl Explained
Build a fully static Rust binary for the musl target and run it from a scratch image. Covers the target, linker, OpenSSL and DNS caveats, the allocator and how to verify.
3 min read
DevOps
Distroless Alpine Scratch and Debian Slim for Rust Images
Four runtime base images for Rust containers, compared on size, libc, debugging, TLS certificates and security. A decision table and the failure each choice invites.
3 min read
Tooling
Structured Logging in Rust With Tracing and JSON Output
tracing adds spans and key-value fields to logs, works across async tasks and outputs JSON for log pipelines. Set up tracing-subscriber and instrument a handler.
3 min read
DevOps
A Small Docker Image for Rust With Multi Stage Builds
Build a Rust service image in two stages so the final image holds only the binary and what it needs to run. See the Dockerfile, the sizes to expect and the checks that it works.
3 min read
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