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3 tutorial series · 7 posts

Tutorial Series

Jenkins CI/CD

Unlock the power of Jenkins CI/CD in your development workflow! This introduction covers essential prerequisites, including understanding the contrasting roles of the controller and agent, and highlights the groundbreaking concept of "Pipeline as Code." With a verified build agent equipped with Python, Docker, and Git, you’ll elevate your automation process, ensuring reproducibility and efficiency while embracing best practices for a robust development environment.

11 Parts · Feb 2026 Start Series →

GitHub Actions CI/CD

In this exhilarating first part of a ten-part series on GitHub Actions CI/CD, you embark on creating the "helloci" Python package. It features a simple yet powerful greeting function and a user-friendly CLI entry point. The journey begins with project setup, encapsulating best practices in Python packaging and laying the groundwork for automated tests. Get ready to transform your coding experience!

10 Parts · Feb 2026 Start Series →

pgmonkey

Alright, so here's the gist: You can get started with pgmonkey in under five minutes. Just set up your project folder, install pgmonkey, and create a YAML config file. After tweaking it for your database, test your connection and run a simple Python query. Easy peasy!

8 Parts · Feb 2026 Start Series →

Posts

QNAP With Portainer

Portainer should be your prefered container management system when running containers on QNAP. Let's use Container Station to install Portainer and enjoy plain sailing.

Feb 19, 2024

QNAP Container Station Docker Setup (Postgres with SSL Certificate)

2023 - How to run postgres as a docker container in QNAP using Container Station and have data persist on a local share directory using bind mounts.

Dec 11, 2023

Install Docker Desktop On Linux Mint

The instructions to install Docker Desktop on Linux Mint differ to Ubuntu in one crucial part - let me prevent a headache.

Jun 30, 2023

Portable Laptop Pi-Hole and Unbound DNS resolver

Run Pi-Hole and Unbound locally on your own laptop so that you have a portable 'as secure as can be' internet browsing experience. DNS - just a modern telephone book.

Jan 29, 2023

VPN Kill Switch With Docker

You might have set up some great rules in your iptables to act as a kill switch, only to find out that on installing Docker and running some containers they completely override your rules. Fortunately the fix is easy. Let me show you how. 1. Required Reading I’m going to apply the fix to my...

Oct 4, 2022

Pi-hole: A Portable Docker Laptop Solution

If you like the network-wide protection your home pi-hole provides against adverts, domains that are known phishing sites, or domains that are known to serve malware, then you are going to love finding out that you can have a local laptop install of pi-hole and take it with you where ever you go.

Sep 19, 2022

Remote-Containers CLI: RPC pipe not configured

Did your git commands suddenly stop working in your docker container? Did you connect Visual Studio Code to your container? Are you faced with the error "Remote-Containers CLI: RPC pipe not configured". Come on, lets get this fixed.

Aug 23, 2022