Your infrastructure ONLY as strong as your weakest link. TL;DR – See solution in docker compose I once had a server that was hacked on a DigitalOcean VPS. Having my server hacked was my goal at the time – yeah, just hear me out. The intention was to understand what Read more…
If you are a DevOps engineer, systems engineer or SRE, it’s invaluable to have a lab environment that gives you free space to explore, build, break, fix, break, refactor, rebuild… and rebuild any part of the infrastructure you wish to work on. Goals and Philosophy My approach to building out Read more…
This error can be annoying but the fix is pretty easy. This usually occurs when you kick off an update of a plugin or theme and navigate away from the update progress page before the update completes. To fix this and get your site working again navigate to the root Read more…
This is an overview of a simple way to create a self signed TLS key pair. Particularly how to create the TLS files and convert the key file to the PKCS8 format. What is TLS (Transport Layer Security)? According to the definition on wikipedia, Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its Read more…
LXC Linux container host server LXC Linux containers is kind of a weird thing to say because LXC means Linux Container, so I’m saying Linux container Linux container… but I digress. LXC has been my goto container solution for the past couple of years. I used OpenVZ containers for a while, Read more…
So you want to see stats of your running containers yeah? This is a short ‘to the point’ post about spinning up a set of docker containers to create a Docker monitoring dashboard. @dalekurt started this docker-compose.yml file based on a great post by Brian Christner and I made some changes to Read more…
In a world of scalable distributed infrastructures and systems, there is a great need for cost effective virtual development environments to build and test these scalable applications. This is a short post to debunk a common misconception about running virtual machines within Amazon’s EC2 environment. Yes,it it possible to Read more…
One line install (for the impatient): curl -s -L http://goo.gl/sqKjXF|sudo bash … grab a coffee, it will take about 10 minutes and will automatically reboot the server in the process. Now go through the description below to understand what you just ran. Yeah it’a ass-backwords but, it’s pretty cool. View Read more…