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
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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. #carbonads { font-family:
Docker Stacks - Creating a Nodejs Hostname Application on Swarm
Create a Nodejs Application that responds GET requests with its Hostname. We will be using Docker Swarm to create a Stack of our Nodejs application, which will sit beind a HAProxy Load Balancer, we are mounting the docker.sock from
Create a Elasticsearch Cluster on Docker Swarm with Alpine
I personally believe that databases should reside outside your swarm, but for testing we will create a Elasticsearch Container from a Alpine Image to keep the size of our image small, which is also great for a testing environment. The
Setup RocketChat on Docker Swarm with Traefik Reverse Proxy
Rocket Chat is a Great Self-Hosted Open Source Communication Platform for Teams and Communities. You can almost categorize it as a Open Source Self Hosted Slack-like Platform. Features: Rocket Chat offers features such as: Chat Platform API Live Support Chat
Setup a 3 Node Docker Swarm on Ubuntu 16
In this guide we will go through the steps on setting up a 3 node Docker Swarm. For more detailed information, and setting up a scalable application have a look at this post Getting Started: Bootstrap Docker Swarm Setup with
Traefik - a Modern HTTP Reverse Proxy and Load Balancer for Microservices such as Docker
Traefik is a modern load balancer and reverse proxy built for micro services. The cool thing that I love about Traefik, is that you can create web applications on the fly, I found that testing alot of web applications, needed
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