DevOps

I’ve been using DigitalOcean for quite some time now and had recently setup their App Platform to run my website. Their platform is great in that I’m able to build a docker container running Openresty and it handles all of my needs. The platform does a great job of catching docker build failures and stops attempting a deployment when this happens. A few weeks ago, I had a concerning thought in that they don’t catch problems with my Openresty configuration until it’s too late. The moment their platform executes openresty inside the container, everything pukes and my site goes offline. ...

Quick Answer (Verified 2026): To configure Adminer for Oracle on Alpine Linux, you must install the Oracle Instant Client and the PHP OCI8 extension. This requires specific build tools and libraries like libnsl, libaio, and libnsl2. Follow the Dockerfile guide below to build a lightweight, secure container for Oracle database management. If you are not familiar with adminer, you can read more about it here. In short, it is a PHP script that allows you to manage various databases via a single interface. We have been successfully using the adminer official docker image from docker hub for a number of different databases. We now have a need to add Oracle as one of those databases to use with adminer. This initially seemed like a simple task. The docker hub page states ...

Now that I’m beginning to use Github to manage my Kubernetes cluster as shown in my previous article Making The Leap Into Devops, it’s time to start bringing over some of my sample systems for testing. This article shows how to make use of Bitnami’s PostgreSQL helm chart to deploy a sample PostgreSQL database in Kubernetes. I make use of the PostgreSQL DVDRental Sample Database that is available here. In order to incorporate this into my deployment, I have created a public Github called sample_dbs to host my sample databases. I pull this down into the deployment so that I have a sample database. ...

It is time for me to quit managing all of my Kubernetes configurations on a random number of servers and Git repos. Sadly, my usage of the Git repos has ONLY been used to perform backups of my code and not used as a way to manage configuration changes. I have been running in DigitalOcean’s infrastructure since 2017, Member since 1/14/2017. I’ve steadily moved from just Droplets into their more managed infrastructure to include Kubernetes and App Platform. The App Platform is what sits in front of this website (something I’ll need to further document some day). I’m hoping to get some time to also tinker with their Functions but time is not always on my side. ...