You may have noticed: this site carries no advertising and almost no sponsored content. It runs on reader support, and that is a deliberate choice rather than an oversight.
What the independence buys you
No advertising means no incentive to write about a tool because someone paid for it. When a guide says an option is a bad idea, or that a project was archived, nothing pushes against saying so. That is the whole point.
It also means no account to create, no tracking beyond basic traffic statistics, and no personal data collected to read or to follow a training path. Your progress lives in your own browser.
What it costs to run
The fixed costs come to roughly 100 euros a month:
- hosting the site and its assets;
- hardware for the homelab, which is where the guides are actually tested before being written;
- SaaS tools used to improve the quality of the content and its discovery.
The time is not counted in there. A single guide that gets replayed in a lab before publication takes days, not hours.
Ways to help
Every contribution counts, small ones included.
- Ko-fi: a one-off or monthly contribution. It is the most direct way, and the one with the fewest intermediaries.
- Amazon affiliate links: on the technical pages you will meet occasional "recommended reading" or "recommended hardware" callouts, linking to books and equipment I actually use. Ordering through them costs you exactly the same and supports the writing directly. As an Amazon Partner, I earn a commission on eligible purchases, paid by Amazon and never by you.
- Telling someone: a link to a guide that helped you is worth more than it looks. This site has no marketing budget, and word of mouth is how most readers arrive.
- Reporting an error: an out-of-date version, a command that no longer works, a broken link. The Discord is the quickest channel, and corrections genuinely improve the guides.
What the support goes into
The site has grown over several years and now looks like a real roadmap for learning DevOps, but there is work left. What gets attention next:
- finishing the sections that lag behind, observability and Cloud Native in particular;
- the homelab, which is what makes the guides testable in the first place;
- the English translation, which is growing chapter by chapter rather than being machine-translated in bulk.
That last point is worth stating plainly: the English pages are written, not run through a translator. It is slower, which is why there are 121 of them against more than 2300 in French.