From server initialization to Docker, Nginx, automated deployment and backup recovery. Build repeatable, rollback-capable, and auditable production environments.
Your code works on your laptop, so how do you let the whole world access it? This guide explains what deployment is with a food-delivery analogy, walks through the full chain from develop, build, test, and release to run, compares five common methods (manual, FTP, Git, CI/CD, containers), and includes a comparison table, answering "what does deploying a website actually mean."
CI/CD shows up in every tutorial, but what does it actually mean? This guide uses a fast-food kitchen analogy to clarify continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment, breaks down the stages of a pipeline, compares GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins, and includes a real pipeline example, answering "how do I get started with CI/CD."
Compare blue/green, canary and rolling as three zero-downtime release strategies, covering health checks, traffic switching, rollback and database change coordination.
Guard and manage Node.js production processes with PM2: automatic load balancing via cluster mode, boot persistence, zero-downtime reload, logging and memory monitoring.
Use upstream for load balancing, proxy_cache for caching and limit_req for rate limiting, and terminate TLS at the reverse proxy layer. Includes deployable Nginx production configs.
Automatically issue and renew Let's Encrypt certificates with Certbot: webroot, standalone and DNS plugins for authentication, plus hooks for fully automatic renewal.
Apply 12-Factor principles to separate config from code: manage cross-environment differences with environment variables, localize config with .env files, and protect secrets with secret management.
Move Docker Compose from development to production smoothly with health checks, resource limits and restart policies, including a split multi-file Compose workflow.
From installation and system parameters to memory tuning, this guide covers production baseline configuration for MySQL 8 and PostgreSQL, including connections, buffer pools, WAL and slow query logs.
Build an automated pipeline from commit to server with GitHub Actions: upload files with SCP, run remote commands over SSH, roll out Docker containers and keep keys secure.
The Kubernetes team published the v1.37 sneak peek: the Metrics API graduates to GA after nearly nine years in Beta, Kubelet Rootless Mode reaches Beta, and kube-proxy ipvs mode starts its deprecation.
Docker announced OIDC connections for GitHub Actions, letting CI/CD workflows authenticate with short-lived, per-run tokens instead of long-lived PATs or OATs — no more manual secret rotation.