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Grafana + Prometheus Monitoring Stack for Your VPS: Complete Setup Guide

DevOps

June 202511 min read

Grafana + Prometheus Monitoring Stack for Your VPS: Complete Setup Guide

Set up a production-grade Grafana and Prometheus monitoring stack on a VPS using Docker Compose, with Node Exporter, alerting via Telegram, and real PromQL dashboards.

Zero-Downtime Deployments with NGINX Blue-Green on a Single VPS

DevOps

June 20259 min read

Zero-Downtime Deployments with NGINX Blue-Green on a Single VPS

Implement blue-green deployments on a single VPS using NGINX and Docker — swap live traffic between two containers with a shell script and achieve true zero-downtime releases.

Automate SSL Certificate Renewal with Certbot and NGINX

DevOps

June 20258 min read

Automate SSL Certificate Renewal with Certbot and NGINX

Set up automatic HTTPS with Certbot and Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu, configure NGINX as a TLS terminator, and never manually renew an SSL certificate again.

Self-Hosted Observability Stack on DigitalOcean: Metrics, Logs, and Alerts

DevOps

June 202510 min read

Self-Hosted Observability Stack on DigitalOcean: Metrics, Logs, and Alerts

Build a complete self-hosted observability platform on a single DigitalOcean Droplet — Prometheus metrics, Loki log aggregation, Grafana dashboards, and Telegram alerting for under $25/month.

Kubernetes for the Solo Developer: A Practical GKE Guide Without the Overhead

DevOps

June 202512 min read

Kubernetes for the Solo Developer: A Practical GKE Guide Without the Overhead

A pragmatic guide to running production Kubernetes on GKE Autopilot as a solo developer — avoiding common pitfalls, minimizing cost, and setting up a CI/CD pipeline that actually works.

The Docker Workflow I Use on Every Project

DevOps

June 20259 min read

The Docker Workflow I Use on Every Project

A practical, battle-tested Docker setup using multi-stage builds and Compose that I apply to every NestJS and Next.js project from day one.

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