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How to create a back up of a docker data volume

27 March، 20233 April، 2023 oussamaComments are off for this post.

If you are using docker and docker compose to run containered services with persistent storage and you wanted to keep backups off the host machine or offline, then you must have thought about a good solution that works for you. I will discuss the concept of a solution that is simple that worked for me. […]

How to use UFW firewall with Docker containers?

18 March، 202318 March، 2023 oussamaComments are off for this post.

Motivation You are using uncomplicated firewall (ufw) and you realised that your docker web app is accessible via the internet regardless of the status of ufw, then this article is for you. I try here to answer two questions: Why does not ufw work for Docker containers? The answer is very simple, both ufw and […]

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

1 November، 202226 November، 2022 oussamaComments are off for this post.

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

1 August، 20223 August، 2022 oussamaComments are off for this post.

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 […]

Using docker-compose to quickly deploy Rocket.Chat

26 April، 202225 November، 2022 oussamaComments are off for this post.

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 […]

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

9 April، 202218 February، 2023 oussamaComments are off for this post.

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 […]