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Thoughts on DevOps, cloud technologies, and my home lab adventures.

A Beginner’s Guide to Git-Flow: Streamline Your Git Workflow

A Beginner’s Guide to Git-Flow: Streamline Your Git Workflow

January 10, 2025

If you’ve worked with Git, you know that managing branches can get messy—especially in team projects. **Git-flow** is a branching model that brings structure to your Git workflow, making collaboration smoother and releases more predictable. In this post, I’ll walk you through the basics of **git-flow**, how to set it up, and why it’s useful for development teams.

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A Beginner's Guide to GnuPG: Encrypting and Signing Your Files and Emails

A Beginner's Guide to GnuPG: Encrypting and Signing Your Files and Emails

January 10, 2025

In today's digital world, privacy and security are more important than ever. Whether you're sending sensitive emails, storing confidential files, or verifying software authenticity, **GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG)** is a powerful tool to keep your data secure. In this tutorial, we’ll cover the basics of GnuPG—how to generate keys, encrypt and decrypt files, and sign messages. Let’s get started!

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A Beginner's Guide to `git-secret`: Keep Your Secrets Safe in Git

A Beginner's Guide to `git-secret`: Keep Your Secrets Safe in Git

January 10, 2025

As developers, we often need to store configuration files, API keys, or other sensitive data alongside our code. But committing these secrets directly to a Git repository is a security risk. Enter `git-secret` - a simple tool that lets you store encrypted secrets in your Git repository while keeping them safe. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through setting up and using `git-secret` to protect your sensitive files.

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