The DevOps section collects hands-on experience from the Sudo infrastructure team running hundreds of PHP/Laravel websites: the three-tier Cloud VPS model, the move to Kubernetes and CI/CD, real incidents and how they ...
In a multi-website setup on Cloud VPS, every request passes through one door: the balancer tier. These are the only servers with public IPs, and they run an Nginx reverse proxy that decrypts HTTPS, bl...
When a cluster has only a few servers, remembering each IP is easy. Once the count reaches a few dozen, spread across balancers, minions, database servers, build servers and monitoring servers, writin...
With only a handful of websites, giving each site its own server is the simplest approach. Once you are running hundreds of sites, most of them PHP/Laravel and each needing a different PHP version, th...
