Mark Lowel Montealto — Full Stack Developer & DevOps Engineer

Mark Lowel
Montealto

Full Stack Developer & DevOps Engineer

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#Docker

7 articles

Deploy n8n to Linode with Docker and Nginx

Featured

June 2026

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4 min read

A step-by-step guide to self-hosting n8n on a Linode VPS with Docker, an Nginx reverse proxy, and a free Let's Encrypt TLS certificate.

Deploy a Full-Stack App on AWS: ECS, RDS & CloudFront

April 2026

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3 min read

Deploy a containerised full-stack app on AWS using ECS Fargate for compute, RDS for the database, and CloudFront as a CDN — infrastructure you can actually maintain.

Laravel Queues & Jobs: Background Processing That Scales

July 2025

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2 min read

Offload slow tasks (emails, PDF generation, webhooks) from your request cycle using Laravel Queues, Redis, and Horizon — with retry, failure, and monitoring strategies.

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform: Your First AWS Deployment

June 2025

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2 min read

Get started with Terraform: write your first HCL configuration, deploy AWS resources, understand state, and follow the plan/apply workflow — no prior IaC experience needed.

Dockerizing a Next.js App: Multi-Stage Builds for Tiny Images

June 2025

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2 min read

Containerise your Next.js app with a multi-stage Dockerfile that produces a slim production image under 200MB — ready for ECS, Cloud Run, or any container host.

Build a Production REST API with Laravel: Auth, Validation & Resources

July 2024

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2 min read

Build a production-grade Laravel REST API with Sanctum authentication, Form Request validation, API Resources, and consistent error responses.

CI/CD with GitHub Actions: Automate Testing & Deployment

June 2024

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2 min read

Build a complete CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions — lint, test, Docker build, and deploy to AWS ECS automatically on every merge to main.