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Securing Nomad, Consul and Gluster

This is Part 6 of the Avoiding the Cloud series. This step is slightly dependent on the provider you use. I’ll use TransIP in this example. In Part 1: Building a Docker cluster with Nomad, Consul and SaltStack on TransIP we defined our technology stack, our IP address ...

Adding Redundancy to Consul, Nomad and Gluster

This is Part 5 of the Avoiding the Cloud series. This step is independent of the provider you use, as long as you can reproducibly provision Salt Minions like we did in Part 2. In Part 1: Building a Docker cluster with Nomad, Consul and SaltStack on TransIP we defined ...

Getting Traefik, Health checks and Dashboards on a Nomad Cluster

This is Part 4 of the Avoiding the Cloud series. This step is dependent on the provider you use. I’ll use TransIP as the example, but all load balancers should be able to do something similarly. In Part 2: Reproducibly provisioning Salt Minions on TransIP, we ...

Provisioning Consul, Nomad and Gluster with SaltStack

This is Part 3 of the Avoiding the Cloud series. This step is not dependent on TransIP and can thus be used in any situation where you have four Ubuntu 20.04 images with Salt Minion installed. In Part 2: Reproducibly provisioning Salt Minions on TransIP, we provisioned ...

Reproducibly provisioning Salt Minions on TransIP with Cloudinit

This is Part 2 of he Avoiding the Cloud series. This step is built on TransIP but can be modified to work at any provider that supports Cloudinit with Ubuntu 20.04 images) In Part 1: Building a Docker cluster with Nomad, Consul and SaltStack on TransIP, we determined ...

Building a Docker cluster with Nomad, Consul and SaltStack on TransIP

This set of articles dives into setting up a new Docker cluster in a repeatable way in the form of Cluster as Code. That means that we want to be able to check out one or more repositories and restore a similar cluster without any (or minimal) manual steps. Everything ...

Using AppleScript to save attachments in Outlook for Mac OS

You want to automatically save your attachments for some e-mails in Outlook for Mac OS. Outlook Rules does not allow you to save attachments somewhere. AppleScript to the rescue. Outlook AppleScript: Save attachment In the more recent versions of Outlook for Mac OS …

Deploying RocketChat using Docker Compose on Ubuntu 18.04

This article is about installing and deploying RocketChat. And then specifically in the following configuration: I wanted to use RocketChat in Docker containers (using Docker Compose) on a TransIP BladeVPS with Ubuntu 18.04. Sounds simple, right? There are multiple …

How to use Tomb to Store Secrets

Sometimes there is the need to store some data offline in a secure fashion. Ideally in a way that can be recreated later on and based on a standard that is probably going to stay around for a long while. Tomb from dyne.org is an open source, free tool for file …

How to auto deploy Hugo website on Plesk Onyx

After looking around for a static site generator from Markdown, I’ve chosen Hugo as my tool of choice. I would love to just be able to edit my Markdown locally on my laptop, commit, push to Github and then have my website automatically updated on the server. …

Getting a full offline travel copy using wget on Mac OS

There are cases when you want to download a website as an offline copy. For me it’s usually because it’s a site I want to be able to use while I’m offline. That happens either by choice or because of planes that don’t have Wi-Fi available (Gen-1 …

Attach Files to a new Outlook 2016 message in Mac OS (High) Sierra or Mojave

Attaching files to e-mail I often want to attach files from Finder to a new e-mail, and I use Outlook from Office 365 on Mac OS Sierra (and now updated for MacOS Mojave). I know you can drag the selected file(s) to the Outlook icon in the Dock. But this is often an ...