https://disaster-help.info – A curated list of useful URLs for the aftermath of earthquake disaster in Turkey and Syria in February 2023

The 6th of February 2023, a massive 7.8 earthquake hit a region in southern Turkey very close to the borders of Syria, in the early morning hours as most people were still asleep followed by many aftershocks including a massive 7.5 magnitude aftershock that happened on the same day while people were undergoing rescue operations […]

docker-compose-certbot

A Docker-first solution to running NGINX reverse proxy with automatically updated Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates using nginx-proxy and acme-companion

In a previous blog post, I presented a solution to use docker-compose to obtain and renew a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate and configure NGINX to use it. The solution depended on using two docker-compose files, one for the initialisation and the second for operation, as well as a cron job, and a couple of very […]

Migrating a self-hosted manual deployment of Rocket.Chat to a deployment based on docker-compose without losing data

Docker and docker-compose provides an amazing way to quickly setup complicated applications that depends on several separate components running as services on a network. This is evident in the amount of time and effort docker-compose spare when deploying a certain web-app like Rocket.Chat, the open-source business communication platform that provides many features such as persistent […]

Yaml Files – Linting and Formatting

Keep the Yaml files in your project tidy is useful. Not only it improves code readability but also helps avoiding misunderstanding and bugs. Luckily there are many tools available that helps with “linting” and formatting yaml file, I will introduce two of those tools in this blog post. I cover the issue of handling long […]

Using docker-compose to quickly deploy Rocket.Chat

Rocket.Chat is an open-source business communication platform that provides many features such as persistent chat rooms (channels) organised by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. The platform can be self-hosted. In this blog post I will detail the steps I used to quickly and reliably deploy Rocket.Chat platform on a Linux machine running Docker. Rocket.Chat […]

docker-compose-certbot

An Elegant way to use docker-compose to obtain and renew a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate with Certbot and configure the NGINX service to use it

Docker and docker-compose provides an amazing way to quickly setup complicated applications that depends on several separate components running as services on a network. This is evident in the amount of time and effort docker-compose spare when deploying a certain web-app like Rocket.Chat or Zammad on a new host. Docker-compose allows for creating a single […]