Lessons from a First Container Deployment
From WSL2 and container health checks to DNS caching and deployment tooling, the practical lessons I learned taking a simple application from source code to a running service.
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Long-form writing tagged Containers.
From WSL2 and container health checks to DNS caching and deployment tooling, the practical lessons I learned taking a simple application from source code to a running service.
A practical approach to container CI/CD: prove the build, registry and deployment path manually, then automate the same operations with GitLab.
Short notes and fixes tagged Containers.
Using the Git commit SHA as a container image tag creates a direct, immutable link between source code, pipeline and deployed artifact.
Projects and implementation patterns tagged Containers.
An end-to-end learning project covering a minimal Node.js service, containerisation, local testing, registry publishing, managed deployment and GitLab CI/CD automation.