Practical articles on AI, DevOps, Cloud, Linux, and infrastructure engineering.
A production-focused Jenkins guide: declarative pipelines, shared libraries, ephemeral agents on Kubernetes, scoped credentials, parallel stages, input approvals, post-block rollback and notifications, and Configuration as Code — with copy-paste examples.
Woodpecker forked Drone when the license changed. Here's how the two compare for small teams and homelabs that just want simple container-native CI.
Buildkite runs the control plane and lets you own the compute; Actions keeps everything close to your repo. Here's how they actually differ once you scale.
Both run pipelines as CRDs inside your cluster, but they were built for different jobs. Here's how Tekton and Argo Workflows actually differ in practice.
GitHub Actions OIDC gets all the attention, but GitLab, Buildkite, and CircleCI issue the same signed tokens. Here's how to trust them without opening a hole.
Hosted runners bill by the minute, and that meter never stops. Here's the break-even math on running your own, plus the tradeoffs nobody warns you about.
A team was burning 40,000 CI minutes a month and could not say why. Here is how GitHub Actions billing actually works and where the money leaks.
A production-focused GitLab CI/CD guide: include/extends templates, rules and workflow, needs DAGs, cache vs artifacts, protected environments, masked/protected variables and Vault, built-in security scanning, and review apps — with copy-paste examples.
Two failures wear the same face: builds that rebuild everything every time, and builds that hand you a stale image. Both trace back to how layer caching keys work.
One bundles your whole toolchain, the other lets you build anything from parts. The right pick depends on how much glue you want to own.
We ran the same test suite on both platforms for a year. Here's where CircleCI earns its price, where GitHub Actions wins on simplicity, and what the bill actually looks like.
We've run both in anger. Here's the honest breakdown of maintenance, cost, and flexibility, plus when Jenkins still earns its keep.
