Category Archives: DevOps

Local HTTPS for dev sites with Caddy, mkcert, and a reverse-proxy gotcha

Posted on May 27, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

Running a local web app over plain HTTP is fine until something forces your hand — a third-party SDK that refuses to load on http://, a cookie that needs the Secure flag, or an app like Moodle that nags you … Continue reading →

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Running multiple Moodle instances side-by-side with moodle-docker

Posted on May 27, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

The moodle-docker project gives you a one-command Moodle dev stack — Apache, PHP, the database of your choice, mail catcher, the lot. What its README mentions only in passing is that you can run several Moodle instances on the same … Continue reading →

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When the third-party PPA goes down: replacing a Dockerfile with a pre-built image on Docker Hub

Posted on May 5, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

Three days, three CI failures, all rooted in the same place: the Dockerfile our build runs from rebuilds the world from scratch every single CI run, and every external source it touches is somebody else’s reliability problem. Here’s what that … Continue reading →

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