On October 8, 2011, Dmitriy Zaporozhets made GitLab’s first commit. His home in Ukraine had no running water; the community well was the smaller problem — what he lacked was a Git tool he could change. Ruby on Rails, inspired by GitWeb, built with Valeriy Sizov. Fifteen years later, GitLab 19.3.1 … Read more
In March 2013, during a five-minute lightning talk at PyCon in Santa Clara, Solomon Hykes showed what dotCloud used underneath its PaaS. Its name was Docker. On March 20, the code was released. In June 2014, version 1.0 arrived. Thirteen years later, Docker Engine 29.8.0 (September 3 … Read more
On June 6, 2014, Joe Beda made the first public commit of what would become Kubernetes: 250 files and 47,501 lines of Go, Bash, and Markdown. Four days later, Eric Brewer announced the project at DockerCon. A year later, on July 21, 2015, version 1.0 arrived — and Google announced that … Read more
Gitea is the self-hosted forge in Go: Git, PR, issues, registry, and CI/CD in a single binary. Updated guide for Gitea 28.0.0 — the version that dropped the “1.” prefix —, with Docker Compose and MariaDB, 4.1 runner, tea CLI, and the upgrade roadmap from 1.27.
In April 2005, the Linux kernel lost its version control system. The proprietary BitKeeper had taught developers the distributed workflow — and Larry McVoy withdrew the license after Andrew Tridgell reverse-engineered the protocol. Linus Torvalds did not return to tarballs and patches. In about ten days, he wrote Git: tree snapshots, content-addressed … Read more
Complete and tested Ansible project: inventory with groups, ufw, Nginx with template and handler that tests the configuration, password in ansible-vault and rolling update that stops by itself if a server doesn't come back.
CI/CD is not a product. It's the habit of integrating, testing, and releasing software in short cycles, with as many automated steps as possible. The “merge day” of 2019 is still the antipattern. What has changed is where the YAML lives, … Read more
Infrastructure as code only becomes routine when plan and apply run in the same place as the code. In GitLab, that fits in a .gitlab-ci.yml: each push generates a plan, the merge request shows the diff, and the … Read more
Open any Linux server and you will find five different languages running at the same time, unaware of each other. The kernel is C. docker and kubectl are Go. The help desk dashboard is PHP — or Perl, … Read more
Learning Python from beginner to professional on Linux starts in the terminal — not in a playlist from 2017. In September 2026, the stable series is 3.14 (3.14.7 on August 5); 3.15 is already a release candidate. The list … Read more
