Moving Docker container data
If you have created a container without specifying a volume, Docker will create one for you. If you later decide you’d rather have the container’s data somewhere else, you can… Read more »
Category: docker
A search microservice with Solr, Docker and Postgres
As I have just joined the team at Armstrong Consulting, I was encouraged to explore the capabilities of Solr within a Docker container and research ways to index existing data… Read more »
Struggles with WordPress on Docker
This blog was running on WordPress on a dedicated Ubuntu 14.04 VM host. When I tried to update the host to Ubuntu 16.04, I broke WordPress. Rather than trying to… Read more »
API rate-limiting with HAProxy
We typically deploy REST APIs behind a HAProxy reverse proxy. We often need to enforce SLAs and protect those APIs from being flooded with too many concurrent requests. In this… Read more »
Minimal web server docker containers
Introduction We often need a simple web server as a Docker container to serve up static content (HTML or an Angular app etc) or a minimal php web app. So… Read more »
Docker workshop
Overview: We recently carried out a short introductory Docker workshop, starting from scratch, installing Docker and taking it through to the point where a software stack, consisting of several linked… Read more »