Why this sits next to Magento and Drupal

Agency delivery is not only application code. Magento, Drupal, Shopify and Laravel projects all need a Linux host story: PHP/Node runtimes, databases, search, cache, TLS, backups. I treat Docker Compose and Debian-class hosts as part of the same craft as the modules — so “works on my machine” is a shared, versioned layout, not folklore.

What I typically deliver

• Local Magento / Mage-OS (and sibling PHP) stacks with Traefik, Varnish, Redis, OpenSearch — parity with Cloud or VPS targets
• Ansible for host bootstrap, deploy users, fail2ban / UFW patterns, and repeatable ops (not one-off SSH archaeology)
• CI jobs that reuse container shapes instead of inventing a second toolchain on the runner
• Sane deploy paths: compose parents, bind mounts vs volumes called out explicitly, no surprise production edits

Ops as backend discipline

This is the layer I learned as a backend developer and sysadmin so e-commerce and CMS projects stay shippable: clear boundaries between app git and host tooling, documented runbooks, and environments the next engineer can recreate.