Developer tool guides

4 guides · 28 chapters

Guides

Step-by-step guides to the tools developers actually deploy. Each one starts with the problem the tool solves, not with its command line flags.

Containers

Docker

Package an application with everything it needs to run

Beginner

Learn Docker in the order that actually makes sense: the problem it solves, the four concepts everything else is built on, your first real Dockerfile, and the six mistakes every beginner makes.

7: chapters
~95: min
v28.x: covered

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Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Describe your infrastructure, then let a plan tell you the truth

Intermediate

From your first resource to a module structure that survives a second environment — including the state management decisions that are painful to change later.

7: chapters
~120: min
v1.x: covered

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Orchestration

Kubernetes

Declare what should be running, and let the cluster keep it that way

Advanced

The reconciliation loop first, YAML second. Learn why a Deployment exists before you learn its fields, and Kubernetes stops feeling arbitrary.

7: chapters
~150: min
v1.3x: covered

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Version Control

Git

Track every change, and undo any of them

Beginner

A guide built around the one thing most Git tutorials skip: the object model. Understand what a commit actually is and the scary commands stop being scary.

7: chapters
~110: min
v2.5x: covered

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