I think I stopped blogging because I just wasn’t quite sure I liked the blogger platform. I guess WordPress is the place to be in the blogging world. After agonizing for a very long time, it seems that it was not time to make the big switch. Turns out, it wasn’t that hard at all. The best thing is that my hosting provider made it totally easy to integrate into my existing infrastructure....
This post focuses on me being lazy. In the previous post, I talked about building a custom image and posting it to the Docker Hub. I have also talked about creating a Git repo and storing everything in it thus far. What if we could make a commit rebuild our image for us? As luck would have it, you can do this! This post is going to focus on making that very simple change to your Docker Hub repository so that every commit causes the image to be rebuilt to the latest....
Welcome to 2020! I hope the new year finds everyone in good spirits and ready to continue listening to me babble about my struggles with technology. So far, the focus has been on using default Docker images for our builds. This is great if you plan to deploy stock instances and only need to serve custom content with some minor configuration tweaks. Note that we were able to make configuration changes using a configMap yaml....
In my previous post, I explained how to setup a simple nginx instance that could be used to sync to a private Git repo. The only drawback is that this setup will only serve static pages. What if you wanted to be able to run a server with dynamic code like PHP? I’m glad you asked! In this post, we’ll update our config to include a php-fpm instance to allow us to serve PHP pages....
My previous post explained how to create a private git repo. On its own, that post is roughly useless unless you planned to maintained some private copy of your project so nobody can see it. In this post, we’re going to put that private repo to use in a Kubernetes environment. A basic assumption is that you already have a Kubernetes environment setup. Adding Another SSH Key to the Repo The first step would be to add another SSH Key to our repo....