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How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 3 - Proxmox to FreeBSD

Posted on March 14, 2023 | 11 minutes | 2288 words | Stefano Marinelli

This is the story of a successful migration from Proxmox to FreeBSD. VMs, LXC containers and services are now running on the new server. [Read More]

Deploying a piece of the Fediverse

Posted on January 15, 2023 | 15 minutes | 3098 words | Stefano Marinelli

The Fediverse is composed by thousands of servers (instances). I’ve started to explore the different software solutions. Here’s what I’ve found out. [Read More]

Installing Mastodon inside a FreeBSD jail

Posted on November 23, 2022 | 4 minutes | 765 words | Stefano Marinelli

This time I decided to install Mastodon on a FreeBSD jail, managed by BastilleBSD. I’ll describe a simple, one jail installation, with the related rc files. [Read More]

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Docker-ize your Services - Part 3 - docker-compose

Posted on September 21, 2020 | 3 minutes | 431 words | Stefano Marinelli

docker-compose allows you to define a set of containers in a single file. They will be in their “namespace” and can be linked and tied together. [Read More]

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Docker-ize your Services - Part 2 - Web Server

Posted on September 14, 2020 | 3 minutes | 430 words | Stefano Marinelli

We can use docker both for static and dynamic websites. We have a wide choice of images - and we can even create our own. [Read More]

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Docker-ize your Services - Part 1 - Reverse Proxy - Nginx and Letsencrypt

Posted on September 7, 2020 | 4 minutes | 672 words | Stefano Marinelli

What I’ll be describing now is another kind of setup, based on two containers, and it will help you to understand some of the features of Docker. [Read More]

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