Automatic deployment with portainer

If you are self hosting your website and aiming for automating the deployment, this quick guide might help you. In this we are going to run the docker services inside a docker swarm cluster and will…

Cloud 3 min read
Automatic deployment with portainer
Using secrets in portainer

This is a quick post on how to use docker secrets with portainer . We will use the pgadmin service as an example to demonstrate this. Login to the portainer and navigate to the secrets landing page.…

Docker 1 min read
Using secrets in portainer
Setting up Traefik load balancer on Docker Swarm

Recently I was upgrading my home servers from Raspberry Pi to a PC with high configuration (intel i7, 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD). On Raspberry Pi, I used a single node docker network, but with plenty of…

Cloud 8 min read
Setting up Traefik load balancer on Docker Swarm
Nginx SSL pass through

In most of the configuration we terminate the SSL at the load balancer and use http connection from load balancer to the server when it is in internal network. But in some situation we needed SSL…

Raspberry Pi 3 min read
Nginx SSL pass through
Solving Proxmox LXC console blank issue

As I am recently upgrading my home network from simple Raspberry Pi to Proxmox based hypervisor network have got to explore many new things. This is one of the issue I couldn't find an answer quickly…

Raspberry Pi 1 min read
Solving Proxmox LXC console blank issue
Backup and restore postgres database with docker run

Now a days it is common to use database as a service from cloud providers instead of maintaining the local postgres installation. Also there will be times you switch between providers due to some…

Cloud 1 min read
My docker swarm setup

I am running my websites from my Raspberry Pi mini PC, and in this post, I am going to explain how I organize the apps and manage security using docker swarm network. In my setup I choose nginx…

Raspberry Pi 1 min read