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OpsDev.nz Collective

OpsDev.nz is the operations and platform engineering collective inside StartMeUp.NZ. We flip the DevOps script: instead of treating operations as an afterthought, we treat dependable day-to-day delivery as the starting point for every founder we support.

This site is the canonical knowledge base for the collective. Documentation covers how we run DNS, manage secrets, build tooling, and share proven best practices with the StartMeUp.nz network of collectives.

What We Focus On

  • Sustainable infrastructure: Greener, cost-aware hosting and CI/CD patterns that scale with early-stage ventures.
  • Open tooling and playbooks: Infrastructure-as-Code modules, runbooks, and guides that anyone in the collective can adopt and extend.
  • Reliability research: Experimentation with monitoring, incident response, and automation that keeps services healthy without large teams.
  • Community enablement: Preparing workshops, talks, and reference material that lift the broader NZ startup ecosystem.

How To Use This Site

  • Visit the DNS as Code section for end-to-end workflows, secret-resolution diagrams, and testing guidance for the OctoDNS Metaname provider.
  • Browse the Reference section for API documentation generated directly from our code (e.g. octodns_metaname, op_opsdevnz).
  • Check the repository README and roadmap for in-flight initiatives and backlog context.

We keep documentation close to the work. When you add or change tooling, update the relevant page here and run mkdocs build (or mkdocs serve) to verify the site before opening a merge request.