Tag: devops

Speed up Ansible playbooks with pipelining, forks, fact caching, and async tasks — stop watching the spinning wheel on every play.

Podman runs containers without a daemon — and Quadlets let systemd manage them natively. Here's why that's actually great for self-hosting.

Portainer, Dockge, and Dockhand compared side by side. Portainer handles fleets, Dockge nails single-host Compose, Dockhand gives you multi-host and SSO free.

Restic, Borg, and Kopia all deduplicate and encrypt — but differ on backends, compression, and UI. Pick the right backup tool for your Linux home lab.

Using :latest in production is a ticking time bomb. Pin your Docker image versions or watch a surprise update break everything at 2 AM.

Zabbix is enterprise-grade monitoring that you can self-host — agents, templates, triggers, and dashboards for your entire home lab.

Write bash scripts that don't silently fail — set -euo pipefail, error handling, input validation, and logging patterns for production scripts.

Containers share the kernel; VMs have their own. Understand the isolation trade-offs, overhead differences, and when to use which.

Decode the postgresql:// connection string — host, port, database, SSL mode, and the gotchas that cause connection refused at deploy time.

Three inner-loop dev tools for Kubernetes — Garden, Tilt, and Skaffold. Which one actually makes K8s development bearable? Honest comparison, no fluff.

Docker Compose Watch syncs your code into running containers without rebuilds. Here's how to set it up and why your dev loop is about to get a lot less painful.

Build container images without writing a single Dockerfile — ko for Go, Jib for Java, Paketo Buildpacks for everything else. Real benchmarks, real tradeoffs.