This archive contains hands-on IT deployment guides and technical notes written for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and security specialists. Here you’ll find step-by-step tutorials, configuration tips, and best practices for deploying and hardening a wide range of infrastructure software — from monitoring stacks like Shinken and self-hosted mail servers to security tools and containerized development environments. Browse the latest updates below or use the categories to find guides for your current project.
Cdist: Real Configuration Management, No Hand-Holding Required
Cdist isn’t trying to hold your hand. It’s not here to teach you YAML or hide logic behind pretty dashboards. It does one thing well: lets you manage Unix systems using just shell scripts, SSH, and your own common sense.
You won’t find agents. No background daemons. No dependencies that require a PhD. Just a straightforward way to declare how your systems *should* look — and make it so, one machine at a time or a hundred at once.
Pulover’s Macro Creator – Practical Automation for Windows Workflows What is Pulover’s Macro Creator Pulover’s Macro Creator is a script automation utility built around AutoHotkey, offering a GUI for recording, editing, and building complex macros on Windows. At its core, it simplifies repetitive input tasks — whether it’s clicking through a form, launching programs in sequence, or simulating user behavior for testing. Unlike heavier automation platforms, this tool keeps things straightforward:
Woodpecker CI – A No-Nonsense CI/CD Tool for Self-Hosted Git Workflows What is Woodpecker CI Woodpecker CI is one of those tools that doesn’t try to be everything — and that’s a good thing. It’s a simple, clean continuous integration system you can run on your own infrastructure. No SaaS layers, no vendor lock-in, no massive overhead. You connect it to your Git server — Gitea, GitHub, GitLab, whatever fits — and it runs your build pipelines inside Docker containers. That’s it.
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Scoop – Minimalist Package Installer for Windows Sometimes installing a tool on Windows takes more time than using it. Scoop changes that. It’s not trying to be fancy — just a simple way to grab binaries, unpack them, and make them available in your terminal. No pop-ups. No wizards. No admin prompts.
You open PowerShell, run one line, and suddenly curl, jq, or ffmpeg are just there. Works the same on a new laptop, a sandbox VM, or inside a CI runner.
It’s built in PowerShell, but you won’t eve
