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DevOps

A 6-post collection

Blazing fast CI with MicroVMs

Around 6-8 months ago I started exploring MicroVMs out of curiosity. Around the same time, I saw an opportunity to fix self-hosted runners for GitHub...

NOVEMBER 10, 2022 on CICD, LINUX, FIRECRACKER, ...

Bare-metal Kubernetes with K3s

> Learn how to configure K3s on bare-metal to run a Kubernetes cluster with just as much resilience and fault tolerance as a managed service. This t...

DECEMBER 21, 2020 on KUBERNETES, EQUINIX METAL, DEVOPS, ...

Expose your private Grafana dashboards with TLS

Grafana dashboards are great for getting quick feedback on critical metrics, or just for browsing interesting statistics about user behaviour on a pr...

APRIL 3, 2020 on INLETS, EXPOSE, GRAFANA, ...

Create a hardened Raspberry Pi NAS

In this tutorial we'll convert a stock Raspbian Lite OS into a NAS with two 314GB WDLabs PiDrives in a RAID-1 array. We'll then look at whether that...

DECEMBER 4, 2016 on RASPBERRY PI, DEVOPS, NFS, ...

Boost your site's performance and save money with NGinx

NGinx is an extensible open-source HTTP server which is best known for its strong performance serving static content, acting as a reverse proxy and f...

NOVEMBER 19, 2016 on DEVOPS, CACHING, TUNING, ...

Jenkins makes a UX splash with Blue Ocean

One of the teams at CloudBees (Jenkins' corporate sponsor) has been working on an overhaul of the Jenkins community user experience and design. It's...

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 on DOCKER, DEVOPS, JENKINS, ...
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