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

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 […]

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

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 […]

Installing MicroK8s on Mac OS X

According to the official website https://microk8s.io/, MicroK8s is a low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes for dev, cloud, cluster, workstations, Edge, and IoT. It is according to the documentation the smallest, fastest, fully-conformant Kubernetes that tracks upstream releases and makes clustering trivial. It is maintained by Canonical the company behind Ubuntu. Installing microk8s on Mac OS X […]