Garden vs Tilt vs Skaffold
Three inner-loop dev tools for Kubernetes — Garden, Tilt, and Skaffold. Which one actually makes K8s development bearable? Honest comparison, no fluff.
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Three inner-loop dev tools for Kubernetes — Garden, Tilt, and Skaffold. Which one actually makes K8s development bearable? Honest comparison, no fluff.
Docker Compose Watch syncs your code into running containers without rebuilds. Here's how to set it up and why your dev loop is about to get a lot less painful.
Build container images without writing a single Dockerfile — ko for Go, Jib for Java, Paketo Buildpacks for everything else. Real benchmarks, real tradeoffs.
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nerdctl is the containerd-native docker CLI replacement — when it's a drop-in, when it's not, and why you'd bother switching at all.
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OpenTelemetry + the Grafana LGTM stack gives you Datadog-class observability for $0/month. Deploy an OTel Collector, route to Tempo/Loki/Mimir, and instrument your app in minutes.
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Per-container control over Docker image updates with labels. Auto-update or notify via Discord, Slack, ntfy—no sidecar needed.
You've been compromised. Now what? A practical incident response playbook for self-hosters who didn't think they'd need one until right now.
Twenty powerful bash one-liners every sysadmin should know—file ops, process hunting, networking, text processing, disk analysis