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Hardening SSH on a fresh Linux server
The first ten minutes on a new box, done right.
Shipping Kubernetes logs to Loki with Grafana Alloy
Add cluster and project labels for multi-dimensional log filtering.
Wildcard TLS with acme.sh and a DNS-01 challenge
Issue *.example.com certificates without exposing port 80.
A sane Docker Compose stack for microservices
Structure compose files so test, pre-prod and prod stay in sync.
Zero-downtime Postgres failover with Patroni
How a three-node Patroni cluster keeps your database online when a leader dies.