Containers 
Use the same Dockerfile - please
As Containers have progressed, Docker has stood out as the defacto standard. As many of the laggards are coming up to speed, Dockerfiles can be seen in many open source repositories. With the addition to that, I have seen a few repos with a Dockerfile-prod, Dockerfile-dev, Dockerfile-test, etc.
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Docker-izing WordPress for Kubernetes
WordPress is amazingly popular considering how antiquated the file structure and code appears to be. Even still, it is the easiest CMS that I have used and the community has created plugins to make the copy-folder-for-a-new-theme/plugin at least tolerable. A challenge comes when one wants to use the 1990's method of serving web applications in a mo…
Jenkins-x on home kubernetes cluster
Jenkins-x appears to be the next big thing in CI/CD workflows - especially if you develop applications on kubernetes. There were a few tweaks I needed to do to set it up:
I had to manually create Persistent Volumes (no big deal, below are what I have for my NFS share)
Read more →Allowing outside access to Home Kubernetes Cluster
Read more →After I created a home kubernetes cluster, I immediately wanted to allow external access to pods/services/ingresses hosted inside the cluster. One must be aware that in bare metal environments, there is no receiver of an api call to create a load balancer. Since there is not a scriptable environment available to kubernetes, kubernetes cannot reques…
kubernetes health check
Read more →The day before thanksgiving, I was pondering an issue I was having. I was pinning a package to a specific version in my Docker container and the repository I grabbed it from stopped offering this specific version. This resulted in a container that Jenkins responded as being built correctly, but missing an integral package that allowed my applicatio…
Reusable containers with confd
Read more →I recently had the need to populate a file in a docker container based upon whether or not the container is in production or development. I eventually came across confd which let me populate data in files based upon particular environment variables. While confd excels with dist…
Docker is not a source to blame
Read more →I have been reading a few articles that have been published recently regarding the use of docker in production. Of the articles I read, all seem to complain about the instability of docker, the docker ecosystem, and they lament persistent storage. While I have not run docker in production for a lengthy amount of time, I can determine these issues a…