After the six ‘Dockerize Me‘ and four ‘Kubernetes Intro‘ episodes that mainly dealt with getting a good understanding of how to use containers, the time has come for me to deal with the ‘end boss‘ of the game: Dockerizing the web-based database system I’ve been working on in my quality time over the years. I … Continue reading App To Docker – Part 1 – Volume Magic
So here’s the story so far: In parts 1 and 2 of my Kubernetes intro story, we have set up a Minikube Kubernetes Cluster. We then deployed a container with an app inside, which was downloaded directly from the Kubernetes image hub, into our cluster. Our cluster is small, it only contains one worker node … Continue reading Kubernetes Intro – Part 3 – Create, Dockerize and Push Into the Cluster
Back in July, I had a couple of posts how to get a ‘dockerized’ version of OnlyOffice to play with Nextcloud. The docker-compose.yml files I found at the time in the developer company’s resources downloaded and then built the OnlyOffice image locally. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it takes a bit to startup the … Continue reading Nextcloud – OnlyOffice Install – Self-Built vs. Docker Hub Image
In the previous post, I discussed how to do a straight forward OnlyOffice install on a server or VM with docker-compose and then connect it to a Nextcloud installation running on another server. It turned out that this was phenomenally simple. Now that everything is up and running and working like a charm, I wanted … Continue reading Nextcloud – OnlyOffice Install – With A Reverse Proxy
While the press and pretty much everybody focuses on ChatGPT these days, there’s another project of the same company that was recently open sourced that promises to create transcripts of video and audio files. It’s called Whisper AI. As I do get audio files every now and then for which a transcript would be helpful, … Continue reading A First Test of Whisper AI
And I’m moving along with the exploration of how to use a managed Kubernetes cluster. In the previous episode, I’ve gone into the details of how to deploy applications into a cluster and hook them up to an Ingress load balancer, so they are reachable from the outside. In this episode, I want to expand … Continue reading Kubernetes Intro – Part 9 – Deploying Your Own App
It’s amazing how in the past year or so, efforts in the telecom industry to move next generation systems into containers and manage them with Kubernetes have moved from theory to practice. The 5G core, for example, was specified by 3GPP in a cloud native way from the start, and even things like Open Radio … Continue reading Kubernetes Intro – Part 5 – A Cluster on Amazon and Linode
In my first post on the topic, I’ve given an introduction to ‘Remotely‘, an open source and self-hostable remote support solution for Windows and Linux. I came away quite impressed but noted that in my virtualized setup, the connection to a supported device was often interrupted due to unknown reasons. Also, I hadn’t yet tried … Continue reading Remotely – Part 2
I’m always on the lookout for solutions to improve my remote working and support capabilities and recently came across ‘Remotely‘, an open source and self-hostable remote support solution for Windows and Linux. Self-hosted and open source, hm, sounds interesting, I thought, just what I like for privacy and confidentiality reasons. So I had a closer … Continue reading Remote Support with a Self-Hosted Remotely Instance
I’ve thoroughly dockerized the services I run in my cloud at home and in a data center over the past months. However, at last count, there are still over 25 servers and virtual machines running on which I run various services. I don’t have a problem with that, but keeping them all updated and rebooted … Continue reading Automating my Cloud Updates with Ansible