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Every website now uses https://, but it's difficult to configure TLS certificates yourself. This post talks about how to set up on-demand wildcard certificates for free with DNS and LetsEncrypt

Preview environments (ephemeral environments) are temporary deployments of a certain version of your application, typically done for every feature branch. Let’s walk through a scenario. You’re building a

Jenkins is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tool. It improves the development lifecycle by automating software building, testing, and deployment.

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On February 1st, 2021, Shippable announced their service shutdown 2 years following their acquisition by JFrog. This leaves Shippable customers with 3 months to find a new solution. Here are the top 3 Shippable alternatives in 2021 for cloud-based web apps.

The core idea for serverless is to specify a strategy for creating new webservers, instead of starting them yourself. That way if your product gets a huge burst of traffic, your cloud provider can start many copies of the webserver, and turn them off as the traffic subsides.

It's a common scenario: You want a port on your local computer to magically forward traffic to your pod/container (or vice-versa.)