The other day I had to troubleshoot my MySQL database when I started getting errors that my applications can't connect to MySQL due to this error: Too many connections. These were the steps that I took Check Maximum
Ruan Bekker
A collection of 244 posts
Backup your files with tar
If you need a one-liner command to backup your files you can use tar, its quite powerful in its usage and you can also exclude items you dont want. I have a lot of git repos or terraform directories, node-modules
Moving docker root directory
This post will show you how to reconfigure docker to write its storage to a different disk, as in my example I ran out of storage on my root disk and wanted to move it to another partition.
Achieving High Availability with HAProxy and Keepalived: Building a Redundant Load Balancer
HAProxy and Keepalived: Your Shield in the Digital Storm. High availability, reliability, and resilience, imperatives in today's digital landscape.
How to Run a AMD64 Bit Linux VM on a Mac M1
This tutorial will show you how you can run 64bit Ubuntu Linux Virtual Machines on a Apple Mac M1 arm64 architecture macbook using UTM [https://github.com/utmapp/UTM]. 💡This post has been post originally at blog.ruanbekker.com [https:
Deploy CoreOS Instances on VULTR
CoreOS is a minimal operating system that enables you to deploy container workloads at scale. In this tutorial we're using VULTR to deploy CoreOS
Docker Multistage Builds for Hugo
In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to keep your docker container images nice and slim with the use of multistage builds for a hugo documentation project.
Using Docker Contexts for Remote Builds
see how you can use remote docker contexts to save your laptops battery life by running computational heavy tasks on a remote docker engine with docker contexts
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