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Visualizing Docker Containers and Images
This post is meant as a Docker 102 -level post. If you are unaware of what Docker is, or don't know how it compares to virtual machines ...
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Nginx with dynamic upstreams
I recently made a setup at work where I had a Nginx server facing the user, which would forward requests to a service running behind an AWS Elastic Load Balancer (aka. ELB). That in itself doesn’t sound like a difficult task, you just find the hostname for the ELB and point Nginx at it with a proxy_pass statement like…
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The Curious Case of Linux Containers
The next person that says “Linux Containers will solve all our problems” is going to get taken out back and shot. This is a surefire way to…
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Grepping logs is still terrible
The other day, I wrote a controversial piece about why grepping logs is terrible , the reactions were interesting. I've got some great feedback (thanks!), and there were a lot of hostility too. I've been called incompetent, lazy, stupid and a systemd-fanboy and various other things. By people who didn't read past the…
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Let’s encrypt automation on Debian
NOTE: This article is old, this hack is no longer necessary, as Debian includes dehydrated that makes all the work. Free SSL certificates for everyone! the https://letsencrypt.org/ initiative backed by Akamai, Cisco, Mozilla and EFF, is going to offer free certificates. On this post I am going to explain how I have…
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Docker Containers on the Desktop
How to run docker containers on your desktop.