The last couple of days I picked up on my ELK Stack a couple thousands of SSH Brute Force Attacks, so I decided I will just revisit my SSH Server configuration, and change my SSH Port to something else for…
Docker
A collection of 25 posts
Dockerizing a Memcached Server for Docker on Alpine
This post I will demostrate how to dockerize a memcached server on Alpine and how to create a boot script that allows you to pass environment variables through to the application. What is Memcached Memcached is a multi-threaded, in-memory key/…
Use Docker Secrets with MySQL on Docker Swarm
Today we will use Docker Secrets, more specifically store our MySQL Passwords in Secrets, which will be passed to our containers, so that we don't use clear text passwords in our Compose files. What is Docker Secrets: In Docker, Docker…
Populate Environment Variables from Docker Secrets with a Flask Demo App
In this post we will create a basic Python Flask WebApp on Docker Swarm, but we will read our Flask Host, and Flask Port from Environment Variables, which will be populated from Docker Secrets, which we will read in from…
Forwarding The Docker Socket via a SSH Tunnel to Execute Docker Commands Locally
With automation in mind, when you want to execute docker commands remotely, you want to do it in a secure manner, as you don't want to expose your Docker port to the whole world. One way in doing that, is…
Docker Environment Substitution with Dockerfile
The 12 Factor way, is a general guideline that provides best practices when building applications. One of them is using environment variables to store application configuration. What will we be doing: In this post we will build a simple docker…
Guide to Setup Ranchers Convoy Volume Driver for Docker Swarm with NFS
In this post we will setup Rancher's Convoy Storage Plugin with NFS, to provide data persistence in Docker Swarm. The Overview: This essentially means that we will have a NFS Volume, when the service gets created on Docker Swarm, the…
Create a Docker Persistent MySQL Service backed by NFS
Docker Containers are stateless, if you want a persistent service like MySQL I always recommend having your database services outside the swarm, but if you need to look at Persistent Storage, there's a lot, including GlusterFS and NFS. Using Docker…