FreeBSD - assign OVH failover IPs to FreeBSD Jails
Sometimes you want (or need) to assign a public OVH failover IP address to a FreeBSD jail but there’s not much documentation on how to do it inside a jail.
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Alpine Linux and LXD perfect setup on BTRFS file system
Alpine Linux and lxd are perfect together, especially if combined with a good file system. Let’s see how to install them on a btrfs file system.
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Efficient backup of lxc containers in Proxmox
Lxc containers are fast, small and useful. Proxmox Backup Server is quite slow with them, so here’s how to perform a fast and efficient backup using Borg.
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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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