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Deployment Strategy and Environment Separation: A Dev Server That Handles ‘Changing Minds’
Explaining the importance of ‘Deployment Strategy and Environment Separation’ through a solo developer’s report-writing episode, and a real-world experience of building a dev server with a spare machine and separating automatic/manual deployment with GitLab CI.
Setting Up GitLab Runner: Breathing Life Into Your Pipeline
A Docker-based walkthrough of installing and registering GitLab Runner. Learn why your GitLab CI pipeline is stuck in Pending, and follow a step-by-step guide from token issuance to executor configuration.
CI/CD Pipeline: Designing Your Own Deployment Robot
This article explains the concept of building a CI/CD pipeline through the analogy of a Dockerfile, and covers how to automate the test, build, and deployment process by writing a `.gitlab-ci.yml` file.
Solo Developer Infrastructure Survival Story: Learning Deployment Through an Incident Report
Through the experience of building infrastructure as a solo developer, this article explains why deployment safety nets such as Git, tests, and Docker tags matter. It is a growth story about a post-breakup company incident report and the realization that CI/CD is necessary.
Docker Containers and Services: Understanding Docker Through Hamburgers
This article explains the difference between Docker containers and services through the easy analogy of a hamburger combo meal, and covers why Docker Compose is needed to handle complex infrastructure orders, that is, deployments.
Docker Images and Layers: The Magic Behind a 0.1-Second Build
This article explains the principles of Docker images and layers using the metaphors of transparent cellophane and pancakes, and provides practical tips for optimizing layer caching through Dockerfile ordering.