Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine
I believe it’s time to bid farewell to this venerable Linux server - 1690 days of uptime since last reboot
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How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 3 - Proxmox to FreeBSD
This is the story of a successful migration from Proxmox to FreeBSD. VMs, LXC containers and services are now running on the new server.
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Deploying a piece of the Fediverse
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.
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Docker-ize your Services - Part 3 - docker-compose
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.
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Docker-ize your Services - Part 2 - Web Server
We can use docker both for static and dynamic websites. We have a wide choice of images - and we can even create our own.
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Docker-ize your Services - Part 1 - Reverse Proxy - Nginx and Letsencrypt
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.
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Docker-ize your services - Part 0 - Introducing Docker
Docker has been a fundamental part of my setup for more than three years now. Day after day I tried to move as many services as possible to Docker and this was a very good move.
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Rotating Docker log files
Sometimes containers log a lot of things, and the logfile can become huge.
This happens because containers aren’t supposed to run for a long time but to be created/disposed regularly. Here’s how to fix this.
You have to instruct Docker, at launch, and tell how much you want the log file to grow before rotating and how many old logs you want to keep.
For example,
--log-opt max-size=50m --log-opt max-file=5
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