Writing a Good Node.js Dockerfile

March 28, 2023

TL;DR: Tutorials often show simplistic, naive Dockerfiles. We can do better.

Docker CMD vs ENTRYPOINT

March 28, 2023

TL;DR: The simplest possible example to demonstrate the difference between Docker’s CMD and ENTRYPOINT instructions:

Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server!

April 14, 2021

TL;DR I set out to build the smallest container image that I could that was still able to do something useful. By taking advantage of multistage builds, the scratch base image, and a tiny assembly-based HTTP server, I was able to get it down to 6.32kB!

CI/CD for this site (Hugo + Cloud Build)

February 21, 2020

TL;DR: Configuring Cloud Build to automatically handle Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for this site based on Git triggers ended up being a bit trickier than I would have expected.

The Making of This Site (Hugo, Caddy, + GCP)

February 20, 2020

Alternate title: Just use Netlify.

TL;DR: Deploy a Hugo site to GCP for free in less time than it will take you to read this article (Github Repo with all referenced commands)

EDIT: In October 2020 I updated the hosting of this site to use GCS + Cloudflare](https://devopsdirective.com/posts/2020/10/gcs-cloudflare-hosting/).