DevOps
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Best Terminal for DevOps Just Landed!
Just yesterday at the time of this writing, Warp terminal for Windows was released, rounding out support for all the major OS’es, including macOS and Linux. Could Warp be the best terminal for DevOps? Let’s discuss this a bit further…
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Top DevOps Automation Tools I Use Every Day
There are many great DevOps Automation tools available for use that allow DevOps engineers and IT Ops to automate and make the most of their automation toolsets. I would like to share with you guys what I think are the…
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GitLab CI CD Variables and How to Use Them
Working with GitLab CI CD pipelines is a great way to automate your DevOps processes. In building a CI CD pipeline you can use variables effectively in the CI CD pipeline to reference values you have stored in your GitLab…
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5 GitOps Tools that you need to know!
I have been getting hugely into GitOps in the home lab lately and carrying those skillings into production environments. GitOps is a methodology that focuses on deployments being sourced from a git repo. Using GitOps you can encapsulate everything in…
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10 Best DevOps Tools Going Into 2025!
With 2025 sunsetting in a hurry, if you are like me you are thinking about the skills and disciplines you want to gain mastery over. DevOps is definitely an area that has tremendous demand with modern cloud infrastructure and even…
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FluxCD Install and GitOps Simple Example
If you are wanting to learn more about GitOps, there is a great way to easily get going and that is FluxCD. Let’s take a look at the FluxCD install and a GitOps simple example that will help you understand…
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Gitops vs DevOps: What are the differences?
Lately, I have been learning a lot around GitOps in the home lab and have seen tremendous benefits from taking this approach with my environment. However, have you wondered what the difference is between GitOps vs DevOps? The differences can…
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Windows Server 2025 Packer Build for VMware vSphere
I have been working the last few days on my Windows Server 2025 packer build for VMware vSphere now that Windows Server 2025 has now been released as GA. It did require quite a few tweaks from the previous way…
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Gitea vs GitLab: Which one for Home Lab?
If you are looking for a self-hosted git solution that will allow you to host your own git repositories, there are probably two solutions that you will see come up on every Reddit thread and blog post that you land…
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Gitea Install with Drone CI CD Server Self-Hosted Git
I have been using GitLab for ages now, and I am very familiar with it. However, one thing I haven’t been happy about with GitLab is the solution’s performance. It feels very laggy and bloated at times. In all fairness…
