Patrick van der Leer

I got into a situation where I got a minimal setup, fairly small VPS for a test/staging server which was behind a VPN. For a project I needed to deploy frontend services but rather than a Kubernetes setup I needed to get the same basic features on a simple bare VPS where I wasn’t even root at.

A number of years ago I started setting up a DIY NAS, before that I simply had a stack of external hard drives. At the time I switched a lot between Linux and Windows, the NTFS support wasn’t great and since life is too short to remove devices safely I usually just unplugged them causing Linux to refuse to mount since “the partition was still active”. So FAT32 it was…

Let’s take a look at how an online casinos actually works, and discus what they actually do and especially what they don’t.

Setting up MQTT broker with SSL, the easy/lazy way.

The default auto devops is based on 2 major parts, the auto-deploy-image and the auto-deploy-app . We’ll go through both of them and take a look the standard possibilities they provide.

How to route traffic via a reverse proxy, i.e. Nginx , in KinD .

A short post about how I use KinD to test my Kubernetes with Helm and Helmfile .

A short post about how I use GitLab CI/CD to automagically deploy to Kubernetes using Helm and Helmfile .

A short post about how I use GitLab CI/CD to automagically test and deploy to PyPi .

The fifth of a 12 part series on how to use Twelve-Factor App in practice. I will be explaining and implementing https://12factor.net/build-release-run based on my experience on how to deal with pipelines.