Time to thank Dockerfiles for their service and send them on their way For why I don't think Dockerfiles are good enough anymore, click here. After writing about my dislike of Dockerfiles and what I think is a major regression in the tools Operations teams had to work…
Section 2 of our DevOps Crash Course…
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As an ex-pat living in Denmark, I use FaceTime audio a lot. Not only is it simple to use and reliable, but the sound quality is incredible. For those of you old enough to remember landlines, it reminds me of those but if you had a good headset. When we…
So this is a request I get probably 4-5 times a year. "I'm looking to host a small application in docker and I need it to be easy to run through a GitLab/GitHub CICD pipeline, it needs SSL and I never ever want to think about…
If like me you are constantly trying to figure out using a combination of ps and free to see what is eating all your memory, check this out: ps -eo size,pid,user,command --sort -size | \ awk '{ hr=$1/1024 ; printf("%13.2f Mb ",hr) } { for ( x=…
You, like me, might assume that when you write a docker-compose healthcheck, it does something useful with that information. So for instance you might add something like this to your docker-compose file: healthcheck: test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "-L", "http://localhost/website.…
Someone Is Making Something Up One of the biggest stories right now in the tech world is the bombshell dropped by Bloomberg that the biggest names in tech have been hacked. Not through a software exploit or through some gap in a firewall, but by the Chinese government infiltrating their…