Securing the Container Supply Chain with Cosign, Sigstore, and Kyverno
Cryptographically sign build artifacts and reject unverified images at admission control to guarantee container integrity across CI/CD delivery pipelines.
CI/CD6 min read
NetBay journal
CI/CD
32 practical CI/CD articles from Netbay Engineering — written for operators running Linux and Windows VPS in India.
32 articles in this topic
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Dynamic Ephemeral Staging Environments per Pull Request with Traefik and Wildcard DNS
Provision isolated preview URLs automatically for every pull request branch on a shared VPS host with automated Let's Encrypt wildcard certificates.
CI/CD8 min read
Hermetic CI/CD Pipelines: Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Builds with Nix Flakes
Banish 'works on my machine' build anomalies forever by isolating compiler dependencies, system toolchains, and runtime environments with Nix.
CI/CD7 min read
Zero-Downtime Blue-Green Deployments with Docker Compose and Nginx Reloads
Achieve seamless atomic application updates on a single production VPS using dual container sockets, upstream switching, and curl health validation.
CI/CD6 min read
CI/CD Explained: Build a Simple Pipeline Today
Learn what CI/CD really means and walk through a minimal Git-based pipeline you can stand up this afternoon.
CI/CD7 min read
CI vs CD vs Continuous Deployment: The Honest Difference
A clear-eyed breakdown of integration, delivery, and deployment, with the automation boundaries that actually matter.
CI/CD6 min read
A Minimal CI Pipeline with GitHub Actions YAML
Build a clean, working GitHub Actions workflow from scratch with a step-by-step YAML walkthrough you can copy.
CI/CD8 min read
More Control with a Self-Hosted CI Runner
Set up your own build runner on a VPS to control the environment, cache, and cost of your CI pipeline.
CI/CD8 min read
CI Stage Design: Lint, Test, Build, Artifact
Decide what belongs in each pipeline stage so mistakes fail early and builds stay fast and predictable.
CI/CD7 min read
Caching in CI: Fast Pipelines Without Cheating
Cache dependencies and build outputs with correct keys so every run is fast and never silently stale.
CI/CD7 min read
A Pragmatic Pipeline Template Teams Can Copy
Steal this practical CI/CD pipeline template: lint, test, build, scan, and deploy in workflows your team can copy and adapt today.
CI/CD8 min read
Secrets in CI: Store and Scope Them Safely
Handle API keys and credentials in pipelines without leaking them in logs, artifacts, or pull requests.
CI/CD7 min read