DevOps

CI/CD pipelines, preview environments, deployment workflows, and infrastructure patterns tested on Laravel projects. Includes GitHub Actions setups and lessons from production-style side projects.

Articles in this category

• Postgres backups on aaPanel: the Laravel schedule I trust for a CMS

  Nightly pg_dump, off-site copy, and restore drills on aviwebsquad.in—boring infrastructure that saves you when an MCP agent bulk-edits wrong.

• Laravel Horizon on one VPS: queue discipline for a CMS that sends mail and images

  Horizon supervisor blocks, timeouts, and when aviwebsquad.in actually needs a worker—media conversions, newsletter, and Pulse alerts.

• GitLab CI + aaPanel: how I deploy Laravel without drama on a single VPS

  A production deploy runbook for aviwebsquad.in—GitLab shell runner, release folders, shared storage, and the aaPanel PHP path gotcha that broke CI twice.

• What is telemetry? A beginner-friendly guide to logs, metrics, and traces

  Telemetry is the data your system emits so you can understand behavior: logs (events), metrics (numbers), and traces (request journeys).

• What Is aaPanel? A Web-Based Control Panel for Linux Servers

  aaPanel is a free hosting control panel for Linux that helps you manage web stacks, databases, SSL, and cron jobs through a GUI. Learn what it offers, who it suits, and how to think about security.

• What is a CI/CD pipeline in DevOps?
• Preview Environments for Laravel with GitHub Actions (2026): a practical setup

  A step-by-step guide to shipping safer Laravel changes using preview deployments per pull request: workflow, secrets, DB strategy, teardown, and a reviewer checklist.