Docker - The Null Route

GUI management for small docker services - Specifically AAA.

Introduction:As stated before - I love docker. It's great. But I also run a number of virtual machines for various purposes. One of those VMs happens to be Cisco ACS 5.8. This controls AAA functions for TACACS+ logins to my Cisco hardware,

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Better 'docker stats' output (with Name)

Problem: The docker stats command isn't great - it gives you container ID vs name, which when you have a pretty small deployment like me (~20 containers) you usually know what services you're running, and want to see the actual names of these things.

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Ghost (blog) migration to 1.0

Introduction: It's been some time since Ghost 1.0 was released, and I've been putting off this day for a while. Essentially the migration strategy I was trying to use wasn't working in the slightest and moving everything seemed to be a bit of

Linux

HAProxy 'home' Load Balancer

Introduction: I've done a few posts in the past about using nginx as a reverse proxy / loadbalancer, however I thought I'd look into HAProxy as a possible alternative to some of the issues I was facing. Such issues include: nginx failing to start if

Cisco

Import Certificates into Cisco IOS Router (SSL VPN)

Problem: So I've made a few posts on automating SSL VPN with LetsEncrypt etc etc, however what if you're already using some way of generating certificates? Be it LetsEncrypt or otherwise. Essentially these days I rely on another container to generate certificates as they're

Docker

Amazon Echo - Integration to Jenkins

Problem: So if you've ever dealt with an Amazon Echo (Alexa) you'll probably know that it's pretty awesome. There's all sorts of things you can do. As far as I could tell there are two main parts 1) Standard organisation / convenience: Essentially you get

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Shorten & Alias 'docker ps' output

Problem: The default 'docker ps' command has a rather verbose output. This (especially for me) is due to the sheer number of ports associated to containers. As a result, I need a super wide terminal to actually accommodate for this, which I don't like.

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Handy Docker Scripts

Introduction: Here we go, yet another docker post! I'm going to keep this one short and simply use it as a repository to store some bash scripts I've written to automate some docker functions. Scripts: Some of these are rather hacked together, they generally

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Automating Docker with Python

Introduction: Ok I've gone docker mad, I love it! Everything of mine is now running on docker (at least everything I can). Naturally the next step is to bring some level of automation to the show, who doesn't love automation! Getting Started with the

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Working with Docker

Introduction: I'm rather a keen advocate on Virtualisation technologies and anything that can be used to abstract resources into a pool to be used where needed. As a result of this interest, I started looking into containerisation, specifically docker. Containerisation is an interesting concept