Tag: DevOps

docker-compose-certbot

A slightly more secure Docker-first solution to running NGINX as a reverse proxy with automatlically updated Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates using nginx, acme-companion and docker-gen

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Introduction In a previous blog post, I a to run nginx as a reverse proxy, with automatically updated Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates that is entirely depends on several Docker images that were originally developed by Jason Wilder, eliminating the need for the shell scripts and the cron job. The solution uses a nginx-proxy Docker container […]

slack_webhook_json_to_rocketchat_webhook_json

Rocket.Chat Webhooks Processing Slack Formatted Requests

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Rocket.Chat is an open-source communication platform offering a plethora of features, including persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. It is a serious open-source alternative to Slack. Many organizations and businesses choose Rocket.Chat for the control that self-hosting provides, as well as for its privacy and security benefits. Over the […]

pytest-minio-mock

Introducing pytest-minio-mock

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As head of engineering professionally and as a contributor to Open Source projects, I am involved in several WebApp projects, where I put a large emphasis on code quality, smooth CI/CD pipelines as part of my dedication to DevOps principles. Some of the projects involves interactions with S3 storage via the Minio package for python. […]

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

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Introduction 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 […]

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

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Introduction 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 […]