DevOps articles

23.8 million secrets leaked on public GitHub in 2024. Here's where server credentials should actually live: what juniors do, what seniors do, how good enterprises handle it, and how I manage my project secrets with Infisical.

A practical look at where to store your app's files — managed cloud services vs self-hosting, what open-source options exist, and why a licensing change pushed me from MinIO to RustFS.

Dokploy deploys my apps, Mailcow runs my email, Postgres holds my data — and Novu and WAHA are the two I'm still wiring in. I didn't write any of it, and my whole setup now leans on it. Here's me working out whether that's a solid foundation or five dependencies I can't escape — and the one question I ask before adding another.

mailcow is installed and your first domain works. Here is how to add a second domain properly: every field in the domain form, every DNS record and why it exists, and the alias options nobody explains.

Two weeks ago a random YouTube video sent me down a rabbit hole — could I run my own email server? Turns out yes, and I did it using Mailcow on my existing VPS. Here's what I learned along the way.

I used to deploy by SSH-ing into a box, hand-writing Nginx server blocks, and running certbot from memory. Dokploy replaced all of it with a UI and a git push. Here is what actually changed, what it does not solve, and the two things that still bit me.