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Oct/24

Exposing Homelab

Filed Under Infrastructure, Linux at 7th October 2024 0:01 by

Overview Opening home services to the world wide web is a security concern and technologies such as VPNs have gotten a lot easier to setup. However, there are times where you cannot install a VPN client and I haven’t had … Continue reading →

03

Jul/23

Unraid

Filed Under Infrastructure, Linux at 3rd July 2023 0:01 by

Overview I have been using Unraid for over 2 years now and it has a great in-between a full solution such as a NAS dedicated hardware and a homelab DIY solution. The idea was to use it as a server … Continue reading →

06

Sep/21

Restructuring Instances With DigitalOcean

Filed Under Infrastructure, Linux at 6th September 2021 0:01 by

Overview I have been using DigitalOcean for hosting my blog as well as other services for a while now. Not only have there been significant advances with the likes of volumes, firewalls, etc for free the value for money on … Continue reading →

07

Sep/20

Upgrading MySQL Running In Docker (Compose)

Filed Under Container, Database at 7th September 2020 0:01 by

Overview I wanted to try and upgrade my MySQL database from 5.7 to 8.0 however I have containerised my database install. What I thought was a immutable container would be a simple burn and switch turned out to be a … Continue reading →

06

Aug/18

Ubuntu to Alpine Docker Images

Filed Under Container at 6th August 2018 0:01 by

I did a quick test and switched the base OS in a docker image which I use for backing up MySQL database and the size difference is amazing! Going from Ubuntu 18:04 to Alpine latest (version) means the combined OS … Continue reading →

04

Apr/16

Dockerising WordPress

Filed Under Container, Infrastructure, Linux at 4th April 2016 0:01 by

Overview Container software has really picked up in popularity in part thanks to Docker and the concept is great. So much so I wanted to try it on my blog. Topology My setup consisted of a single instance on DigitalOcean … Continue reading →

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Feb/16

Migrating From Ubuntu 14.04 To 16.04

Filed Under Container, Database, Infrastructure, Linux at 22nd February 2016 0:01 by

Overview I have written migration plans for Ubuntu upgrades before. What makes it different this time is the hybrid Docker containers that I have used in places and the support for virtual IP (VIP) in Digital Ocean, my current hosting … Continue reading →

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Sep/14

Installing Latest Docker Server On Ubuntu 14.04

Filed Under Linux, Software at 8th September 2014 0:01 by

Overview Docker is becoming a very popular software container for Linux based deployments. It allows software to be wrapped into containers and deployed onto the server. The container is “jailed” so that it’s processes cannot interfer with others (a sandboxing … Continue reading →