Many companies and organisation uses Google Workspace as the provider of their productivity and collaboration apps. The Gmail webmail service, Google drive, Google Documents, Google Meet, The calendar and many other apps are simple great tools for small and medium-sized organisations. Odoo is an open-source suite of business applications that assists companies in managing various […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]