Sometimes you need to do things you don't like and you don't know where you will end up. In our household there exists one (production) system running Windows. Don't ask why and please no recommandations how to substitute it. Some things are hard to…
As announced recently [https://log.cyconet.org/2020/12/13/monitoring-plugins-2-3-released/] I prepared a monitoring-plugins 2.3 package for experimental. If there is enough positive feedback until 12th January 2021, I intend [https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-nagios-devel/2020-December/011005.html] to upload this into unstable targeted for Debian Bullseye.…
Since some time I'm using cloud resources provided by OVH [http://www.ovh.com] for some projects I'm involved. Recently we decided to give Zammad [https://zammad.org/], an opensource support/ticketing solution, a try. We did choose the docker compose way [https://docs.zammad.org/…
When a small platform for shipping containers is needed, not speaking about Kubernets [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes] or something, you have a couple of common things you might want to deploy at first. Usual things that I have to roll out everytime deloying such a platform: * docker [https:…
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…