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
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Guides for operators
Practical guides for Linux, containers, CI/CD, self-hosting, and running VPS infrastructure from Netbay Engineering.
599 articles · 24 topics
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Diagnosing Failed Units: A systemctl Troubleshooting Playbook
A step-by-step playbook for failed units: read status and exit codes, chase logs and coredumps, and fix the six most common systemd failure modes.
Linux Administration7 min read
Personal Kanban With Planka or Focalboard
Track projects on a self-hosted kanban board with Planka or Focalboard and Docker Compose, with unlimited cards, views, and a scriptable API.
Self-Hosting6 min read
Getting Started with the Netbay Developer V1 API
Learn how to automate VPS deployment, query IP stock, and manage proxy credentials using X-API-Key and X-API-Secret authentication.
API & Automation4 min read
A Docker Security Checklist for Production Hosts
A production-ready Docker checklist: hardened host, minimal pinned images, non-root read-only runtime, capability drops, limits, and clean network hygiene.
Containers9 min read
Horizontal Scaling with HPA on a Single Node: Honest Limits
Autoscale your workloads with a HorizontalPodAutoscaler, and understand the honest capacity limits on a single-node cluster.
Kubernetes6 min read
Upgrade MariaDB Minor Versions Without Panic
Run a MariaDB minor upgrade as a rehearsal: dump, hold check, package update, mariadb-upgrade, and a rollback path you have already typed out.
Databases9 min read
A One-Weekend Observability Stack That Stays Small
Assemble a weekend metrics, logs, and alerts stack on one VPS with hard RAM and disk caps so the observers never crowd out the application you run.
Observability9 min read
Fixture-Based Evals for Production Ops Agents
Score ops agents against frozen fixtures for SQL safety, command allowlists, and citation honesty so a model change cannot silently break production habits.
AI Agents8 min read
DHCP on Linux Servers: When to Use It and Why It Surprises
Understand DHCP client behavior on Linux servers, why addresses change unexpectedly, and when static config is the safer choice.
Linux Networking6 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
When a Script Is Better Than an AI Agent
Choose a cron script over an AI agent when the steps are known, the failure is binary, and a Linux VPS should not spend tokens to restart nginx.
AI Agents8 min read