Gitpod may have deprecated support for self-hosted, but that's no reason to let it die

On Tuesday, my adventure at Gitpod came to an end. What next?

The Gitpod-built images are all derived from Ubuntu. But that doesn't meant that's all you can use.

Serverless functions are a great way of building a scalable application, but often a RESTful API is easier when building a complex application. Let's combine the two.

Terraform is a great way of configuring your cloud infrastructure, but adding the permissions to work with Azure Active Directory is always difficult to remember

Hosting your own Helm Registry is helpful for making Kubernetes deployments reusable. GitLab Pages is a great way of hosting your own Helm Registry without any hosting charges and by setting up a few triggers, is easy to incorporate it into your automated workflow.

Git rebase is one of the most complex things to get your head around. But, by following a few simple steps, you can master it.

R is great for statistical analysis, but hard to Dockerise. This is how I get round the problems.

OpenFaas is a great tool and a great way of getting started with serverless functions. But it can be tricky for team development

"Do DevOps", calls the crowd. "Automate all the things", says the world. But how best to set up your workflow so it actually improves your process without becoming a headache?

Multi-arch containers are great, except when you have C/C++ bindings to deal with. SQLite is one of the more common packages so I'll show you how to massively speed up your build process.

Remote working isn't simply shirkers being lazy, it's a modern sustainable way of building a technical team