My home NAS setup, 2022 edition

This post is an update of the my 2020 home NAS setup. A few things changed since then, the most important the introduction of snapraid for the media and archiving portion of the NAS. The hardware hasn't changed much apart from a (preventive) hard-disk replacement; my admiration and gratitude goes to HP for building a … Continue reading My home NAS setup, 2022 edition →

docker-proxy port in use

Quick one: you're starting a container through docker-compose and it says a port is in use. You "netstat -plutn" it and find out, that port is in use by docker-proxy. Github user rdavaillaud knows what's going on: stop dockerremove all internal docker network: rm /var/lib/docker/network/files/start docker

Rebuilding single services in docker-compose

Note to self: a single service ("container") out of a docker-compose.yaml file is rebuilt and restarted like this: docker-compose create container_name While this complains about deprecations, there is another way. Let's say we want to re-create a container called "web" belonging to a composition: # stop container docker-compose stop web # optionally destroy container. … Continue reading Rebuilding single services in docker-compose →

Securing a development server

In this post I talk about setting up and securely operating development tools like Jenkins and Gitlab on a server connected to the internet. All applications run behind a firewall and a reverse HTTP proxy which allows only HTTP requests from selected users through who authenticate themselves with client certificates. Putting web-facing software on the … Continue reading Securing a development server →