MLOps & Deployment

This series covers the deployment side of building with AI — Docker and Docker Compose, CI/CD, cross-platform runtimes, and the infrastructure plumbing that moves a project from localhost to a running service.

Series Progress

All Posts in This Series

Part 1: My Docker Needed Some TLC 17 Sep, 2026 A practical Docker troubleshooting guide for macOS: stalled BuildKit, cache pressure, startup failures, and safe recovery steps.
Part 2: Docker Permissions Without Panic: Why I Ran chown Inside My Container 26 Jun, 2026 Why a Flask container throws Permission denied when it runs as a non-root user, and how to fix ownership properly with chown instead of chmod 777.
Part 4: From Localhost to Live 26 Sep, 2026 From localhost to production VPS: deploy Docker Compose with Nginx, TLS, firewall defaults, and operations checklists.
Part 5: Caching Docker Compose Builds with BuildKit 13 Sep, 2026 A practical BuildKit guide for Docker Compose: cache mounts, Dockerfile ordering, and reproducible fast rebuilds.
Part 7: Docker Compose CI/CD with GitHub Actions: A Reliable Flask Workflow 26 Sep, 2026 A complete Docker Compose CI/CD pipeline for a Flask app: test pull requests against real PostgreSQL, publish the tested image to GHCR, and deploy that exact digest to a VPS with rollback.

Getting Started

New to this series? Start with Part 1: My Docker Needed Some TLC.

Each post builds on the previous one, so reading them in order is recommended. Each post also works on its own if you need to jump to a specific topic.