DevOps Questions, Answered

Terraform and Ansible both touch infrastructure, and each can technically do some of the other's job, which is what makes the line between them blurry

GitOps is widely recommended and loosely defined, which makes it easy to assume it just means keeping configuration in Git. What it actually requires

Prometheus and Grafana are the usual answer for monitoring Docker containers, but "use Prometheus" leaves out the part that does the work: something h

Outgrowing Docker Compose — say five services across three VPS, with two engineers to run whatever replaces it, and no budget for managed control plan

A small team picking its first CI/CD tool — say three developers on a Node.js backend, a React frontend and PostgreSQL, deployed to EC2 and currently

Installing Docker on a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 server comes down to two routes: the convenience script at get.docker.com, or adding Docker's apt repository