Using portainer you can manage your local (or remote) docker through a web UI. Portainer is an open source project. Deployment The easiest way to deploy portainer is using a container. It is also possible to deploy it locally (for more details and options, check the links bellow). On this Read more…
One more of those small things that can cost you hours to find again when you eventually need it. 502 – too big header If you get nginx 502 error pages when browsing one of the services you deployed to a kubernetes controller using a nginx ingress controller to expose Read more…
Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH https://guacamole.apache.org/ Running guacamole on a virtual machine can help you expose other servers on the same VPC that are not accessible directly for remote management. More important can give you access to any of them Read more…
Start with a virtual machine running Ubuntu with snap support (e.g. 16 or 18LTS) SSL Rancher has “native” support for letscencrypt. If you have access to a domain and can create a new DNS entry on it, add one pointing to this server. Make sure ports 80 and 443 are Read more…
Hopefully this was the last time I have to “google it” 🙂 Flush DNS cache on Mac sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; say cache flushed To Change the DNS server networksetup -setdnsservers WI-FI 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4
This is the one more step to get a dotnetcore web app made available in a kubernetes cluster. The instructions here are the bare minimum to create an web api app and make it available for deployment in a container. See this post for instructions on how to create a Read more…
Create a kubernetes cluster all-in-one virtual machine for kubernetes learning/experimentation. Note: There is a little video on https://microk8s.io/ if that is more of your cup of tea. Ingredients Virtual Machine (e.g. AWS EC2 instance) Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (or any linux distribution with snap support) Create cluster using microk8s Like Magic: You Read more…
Generate a SSL certificate for the current host (without having to change the DNS). On any linux version that supports snap. For example out of the box Ubuntu 16+ or Ubuntu 14.04 after installing snapd. Note: that not all hostnames are allowed when using letsencrypt. You can’t for example use Read more…
Generate API clients using the Swagger Code Generator in a docker container. This instructions were tested on a Mac, most likely will also work on a Linux host and can easily be adapted to work on Windows. swagger.json Get the compatible swagger/OpenAPI API description file in the json format and Read more…
Host your a bare bones Docker Repository on Ubuntu (16.04) with SSL and user authentication. Install docker Follow instructions on https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/ Make sure to add current user to the docker group. Assuming this you are using this server just to host the docker private registry, create everything under the user’s Read more…