Understanding Kubernetes: A Beginner's Guide to Container Orchestration
If you have already explored Docker , you know how convenient containers are. You package your application, dependencies, and environment into a nea…
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If you have already explored Docker , you know how convenient containers are. You package your application, dependencies, and environment into a nea…
If you have ever dealt with the nightmare of "it works on my machine but crashes in production," you have felt the pain that containerization was bu…
Reading about chmod is not the same as typing it. Everyone who learned the terminal knows this, and everyone who teaches it says the same thing: you…
Run this on any Kubernetes cluster that has containers with HEALTHCHECK defined in their Dockerfile and no livenessProbe or readinessProbe configure…
I have been developing Visio-Display , a free and open-source digital signage platform released under the GPL-3.0 license . The project started with…
Building a small local knowledge base on top of Actian VectorAI DB, the actual challenge wasn't the database. It was easy to accidentally fake seman…
I expected this task to schedule. The running service was barely doing anything: MemoryUsage=480KiB / 5.772GiB MemoryPercent=0.01% CPU=0.00% Then I…
Disclosure up front: I'm Vitalii, founder of PDFik , a hosted URL/HTML-to-PDF API. It shows up once near the end, clearly marked. The rest of this i…
A mental model for Docker networks: how containers find each other, when to publish ports, and the difference between expose and ports. The mental m…
Write health checks that reflect real readiness, gate dependent services on them, and enable automatic recovery from wedged states. Why "running" is…
DeepSeek R1 is a first-generation reasoning model tuned for math, coding, and logical reasoning — reinforcement learning with a cold-start phase for…
post 8: You run a container. It starts successfully. The application works. So… is it production-ready? Not necessarily. The real test of a producti…
There's a particular kind of waste that happens in Docker images and that everyone accepts as normal until someone points it out: shipping the compi…
If you run an autonomous LLM agent in a container, here is a question worth sitting with: is your network egress policy actually enforced, or is it…
How I Automated a 3-Tier Application CI/CD Pipeline with Docker, Azure & GitHub Actions I recently completed a hands-on DevOps project where I t…
Stirling-PDF is not an unstable application. Almost every crash, hang and quietly mangled output traces back to one of fifteen decisions you made ou…
Welcome back dear reader, I am Alex M. Schapelle, AKA Silent-Mobius, your Semi-automated cog-engine. As the time of machine is upon us, also known a…
Installing Minikube on Debian Minikube is a practical way to run a small Kubernetes cluster on a Debian workstation or development instance. This gu…
Install Docker Engine on Debian Docker Engine provides the daemon, CLI, and runtime needed to build and run containers on Debian. This guide install…
Hola Amigos 👋 Welcome to the world of Cloud and Automation! AWS launched ECS Express Mode in late 2025, and in today’s blog, we will understand how…
Introduction Frontend Studied the common signs of a vibecoded website and avoided it. Backend Used Spring Boot and learned SOLID principles. Authent…
Imagine you have one application running on a single server. Everything is fine. Then your users increase from 1,000 → 10,000 → 100,000 . Suddenly,…
A reference guide compiled from deploying two Node.js/Docker apps to AWS EC2, covering the real issues hit and how they were fixed. 1. Getting Conne…
Archival repost — originally published on my old blog on June 21, 2015, back when Alpine was still a dark-horse pick rather than the default. Alread…
Building ERP_cloud , a Flask-based ERP platform, has taught me that production readiness goes far beyond getting the application working. Recently,…
Some workloads want an image each. A build that needs a specific toolchain, a test that needs a specific database client, a task whose dependencies…
Too many applications are still using IPv4 only, which is a shame as IPv6 was standardised ~28 years ago. If you want to check if your application i…
Imagine you have a complex microservice. For local development, you need it connected to a message queue, a telemetry collector, and a database. But…
A tutorial for running two or more python bots on Railway inside one container and one service, with independent crash recovery for each. Deploying…
Quiet learning day, mostly — until AWS almost let me subscribe to something that costs $57,600 a month. Dockerizing Bludit, locally Containerized ng…