Tutorials - DeployHQ Blog

We like to help people so we try to publish useful tutorials about how to use our products, open source libraries or how to accomplish various design & development tasks.

OpenClaw Skills: How to Find, Install, and Build Your Own

OpenClaw Skills are the plugin system that turns a self-hosted AI assistant into a workflow automation engine. Learn how to find skills in the ClawHub registry, install them on your VPS, and build a custom skill from scratch to automate a repetitive task.

Understanding CORS: The Developer's Guide

What CORS is, why browsers enforce it, and how to fix CORS errors in Express, Django, Rails, PHP, and Nginx — with common error messages explained.

CI/CD Pipelines: The Complete Guide

Learn how to design, build, and optimize a CI/CD pipeline. Covers pipeline stages, GitHub Actions config, deployment strategies, security, monitoring, and DORA metrics.

How to Deploy and Configure OpenClaw on a VPS

OpenClaw is an open-source, self-hosted AI assistant gateway that connects WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord to AI models like Claude or GPT-4. This step-by-step guide covers VPS provisioning, security hardening, Nginx with SSL, systemd service management, and automated configuration deployments with DeployHQ.