With the release of Gitlab 8.15 [https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/22/gitlab-8-15-released/] it was announced that PostgreSQL [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL] needs to be upgraded [https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/22/gitlab-8-15-released/#postgresql-version-upgrade] . As I migrated from a source installation [https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/…
Since some time everybody (read developer) want to run his new microservice [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices] stacks in containers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtualization]. I can understand that building and testing an application is important for developers. One of the benefits of containers is, that developer…
Since ages I wanted have replaced this freaking backup solution of our Network Equipment based on some hacky shell scripts and expect [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect] uploading the configs on a TFTP [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_File_Transfer_Protocol] server. Years ago I stumbled upon RANCID…
In some cases it might be a good idea to use a reverse proxy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server] in front of a web application. Nginx [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx] is a very common solution for this scenario these days. As I started with containers for…
In case you ever wanted to look at Icinga2 [http://www.icinga.org/icinga/icinga-2/], even into distributed [https://www.icinga.org/icinga/icinga-2/distributed-monitoring/] features, without messing with installing whole server setups, this might interesting for you. At first, you need to have a running Docker on your system.…
When I was thinking about using Ghost [http://ghost.org], I did read the installations guide [https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost#quick-start-install] and then I just closed the browser window. I didn't wanted to install npm [http://www.npmjs.com/], yet another package manager, and just hack [http://docs.ghost.…
Exactly 3 years after I moved [https://log.cyconet.org/2013/01/04/new-blogging-engine/] on from Wordpress [http://wordpress.org] to Octopress [http://octopress.org] I thought it's time for something new. Some of you might have noticed that I've not much blogged in the past. A new Octopress version…
Today early in the morning my monitoring system notified me about unusual high outgoing traffic on my hosting platform. I traced the problem down the webserver which is also hosting this abandoned website. Looking into this with iptraf [http://iptraf.seul.org/] revealed that this traffic is coming only from…
