DevOps articles

For most applications, spinning up HTTP for localhost development is fine, but what if you need HTTPS for things such as secure cookies or HTTPS-only headers? Let's explore how to use Caddy to make HTTPS for localhost development super easy.

FreeBSD’s native support for ZFS snapshots and jails provides a powerful foundation for immutable deployments. By creating a new jail from a ZFS snapshot for every release, we get instant rollbacks, zero‑downtime upgrades, and a clean, reproducible environment. This article walks through the (very opinionated) flow that we use, from jail setup through running Caddy as a health‑checked reverse proxy in front of the jails.