Viktor Adam's blog

It was time for me to pack up my home stack and look for a free (even if temporary) - cloud hosting for it until we go through an actual home move as well.

Git hooks are a great way to execute custom actions triggered by various Git events on the local machine. In my opinion, they have some shortcomings around installation and reusability that I’m trying to address with the Githooks project.

We’ve seen now that we can run co-located and coupled services on Docker Swarm. This post shows you how to use templates to extend your services in a common way.

If we can run co-located containers on Docker Swarm mode, what can we use them for? This post goes through a few made-up example stacks, and explains the setup and the configuration of the components within the sort-of pods.

Emulating Kubernetes pods on Docker Swarm mode.

If you’re like me, you perhaps also often forget to update your README files in the heat of coding up the latest features in your projects. How can we make sure that it happens in a timely manner? Add unit tests for it, and make your build fail!

Tales of adventures in GoLand, one month in.

The final post in the series describes the various Swarm stacks I now have in GitHub, and explains the workflows around them.

A recent Docker update came with a small but important change for service secrets and configs, that enables a much easier way to manage and update them when deploying Swarm stacks.

Create and maintain DNS records on Cloudflare, secure the communication to the origin servers using certificates from Let’s Encrypt, and how to make this painless and fully automated.