Using the mount command to mount a NFS disk is a good test practice. Sure, but on the next system reboot, the disk will “magically disappear”. That’s why we need to write the mount configuration to the so-called /etc/fstab file. This configuration file is…

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If you have allocated an Elastic IP already and you want to associate with one of your EC2 instances, the procedure can be done in a few steps. Let’s take a look on how to associate Elastic IP to an EC2 instance.

Given an existing docker container, prints the command line necessary to run a copy of it. - lavie/runlike

GCP has this cloud_sql_proxy tool that provides conceivably secure connection to your Cloud SQL instances, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL, whatever it might be the case. Think of it as an auth proxy for your privately accessed databases, meaning being deployed in…

Create a repository directly from your local folder to GitHub. - GitHub - shunak/wfh: Create a repository directly from your local folder to GitHub.

Terraform Azure is pretty much a stable, mature provider. However, there are few errors that could occur for some “random” reason, and this time Error ensuring Resource Providers are registered is one of them. Had this particular issue while testing some…

git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single terminal command

Sometimes, setting up HTTP/HTTPS GCP Firewall rule and Nginx reverse proxy to point to the Docker container port mapped as 0.0.0.0:3000 could be not enough, even though running curl 0.0.0.0:3000 on the same machine works as intended. So, here’s the catch.

Building PHP extensions can be done through the php-devel package which contains files needed for PHP extensions. Today’s aim is to install PHP Devel on Amazon Linux 2.

Right of the bat, using GCP Service Accounts (SA) is greatly not recommended. This comes from GCP though. Service account keys are not managed properly, and present a security risk. Initially, the key management itself is an annoying pain point, often left…

It feels like there is no more need of adding a swap practice, especially today, deploying VMs in the cloud, considering the abundance of memory, disk and vCPUs resources that are available on-demand. But, for those out there who wants to trade a “bit” of…

Last month I have been developing a Rust tool to create container images from Conda environments, without going through Docker. It was a wild trip down the rabbit hole of OCI images, so I thought I’d share part of the adventure here. Enjoy!
But why? If you…

If I got a dollar for every temporary, quick fix found on the Internet for any type of error, I’ll be so rich. Before else, WordPress and LAMP stacks makes the majority of websites out there, it’s annoying. While I was trying to “fix” a 1GB of memory VPS…

🚀 Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker Compose. Contribute to wowu/docker-rollout development by creating an account on GitHub.

Getting prompt for GitHub username and token everytime you try to pull is so annoying task. Keep in mind that PATs (Personal Access Tokens) aren’t the default solution anymore, as of the time of writing. GitHub released new tokens, called Fine-grained tokens…

Craig's year end wrap-up of 5 things you can do for a healthier Postgres database next year.

It would be more or less fair to say that GCP is the only Cloud hosting platform that I have disdain for and give me an urge to punch a wall. Based take, right?! While I was trying to deploy a staging database environment, I encountered the following error…