https://blog.viktoradam.net/Open-source adventures with containers, free hosted services and CI/CDHugo 0.54.0 -- gohugo.ioen-usMon, 11 May 2020 10:20:00 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2020/05/11/prometheus-flask-exporter/Mon, 11 May 2020 10:20:00 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2020/05/11/prometheus-flask-exporter/Learn about how easy it is to monitor your Python Flask applications with Prometheus using an exporter library!FlaskPrometheusPythonMonitoringViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2019/03/28/netlify-hugo/Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:20:00 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2019/03/28/netlify-hugo/Leaving the Ghost blog engine for the amazing Hugo plus Netlify duo, or: static site generators FTW!AutomationHome LabGolangViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/08/30/moving-home/Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:50:55 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/08/30/moving-home/The story about migrating my home stack to AWS with EC2, Lambda, API Gateway and Cloudflare for free, using Terraform for provisioning and changes.AutomationHome LabAWSTerraformViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/07/26/githooks-auto-install-hooks/Thu, 26 Jul 2018 08:32:09 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/07/26/githooks-auto-install-hooks/Git hooks are a great to execute custom actions on Git events on the local machine, but they have some shortcomings I'm trying to address with the Githooks project.GitAutomationTestingViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/06/19/podlike-templates/Tue, 19 Jun 2018 07:38:43 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/06/19/podlike-templates/See a templated approach to define co-located and coupled containers as services on Docker Swarm mode, to make it easier to have "pods" without having Kubernetes.PodlikeSwarmDockerAutomationViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/05/24/podlike-example-use-cases/Thu, 24 May 2018 07:31:19 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/05/24/podlike-example-use-cases/If we can run co-located containers on Docker Swarm mode, what can we use them for? This post goes through a few examples, and explains the setup.PodlikeSwarmDockerMicroservicesViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/05/14/podlike/Mon, 14 May 2018 07:05:53 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/05/14/podlike/Running co-located containers with shared resources is not a Kubernetes exclusive feature. Intro for an app, that enables emulated pods for Docker Swarm.SwarmDockerMicroservicesPodlikeViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/05/08/gating-on-readme-updates/Tue, 08 May 2018 07:39:45 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/05/08/gating-on-readme-updates/Maybe you also often forget to update your READMEs as new features get added? How can we avoid this? Add unit tests for it, and make your build fail!TestingProgrammingOpen-SourceViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/04/26/go-explore/Thu, 26 Apr 2018 08:30:47 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/04/26/go-explore/Tales of adventures in GoLand, one month in. A subjective look at the Go language, after having spent about a month using it, with zero previous experience.GolangProgrammingViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/03/15/home-lab-open-sourcing-the-stacks/Thu, 15 Mar 2018 08:59:27 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/03/15/home-lab-open-sourcing-the-stacks/The final post in the series describes the various Swarm stacks I now have in GitHub, and explains the workflows for updating them using webhooks.Home LabCI/CDDockerSwarmViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/02/28/swarm-secrets-made-easy/Wed, 28 Feb 2018 21:13:55 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/02/28/swarm-secrets-made-easy/A recent Docker update came with an important change for service secrets, that enables an easier way to manage and update them when deploying Swarm stacks.DockerSwarmAutomationViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/02/17/auto-dns-and-ssl-management/Sat, 17 Feb 2018 11:56:45 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/02/17/auto-dns-and-ssl-management/Manage DNS records on Cloudflare, secure the communication using certificates from Let's Encrypt, and how to make this painless and fully automated.AutomationHome LabDockerViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/02/06/home-lab-part5-monitoring-madness/Tue, 06 Feb 2018 22:40:55 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/02/06/home-lab-part5-monitoring-madness/Having looked at the configuration and setup of the services in the Home Lab, it's time to talk about how we can monitor them, and manage their logs.Home LabMonitoringDockerViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/01/20/home-lab-part4-auto-configuration/Sat, 20 Jan 2018 14:44:21 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/01/20/home-lab-part4-auto-configuration/Explaining the way, auto-configuration works in my Home Lab. Driven by Docker, generated by Python tools, fully automated (almost).Home LabDockerSwarmMonitoringViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/01/13/home-lab-part3-swarm-cluster/Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:30:20 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/01/13/home-lab-part3-swarm-cluster/This post in the Home Lab series explains how I extended my stack to multiple servers with Docker Swarm and some of the configuration changes around it.Home LabDockerSwarmViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/01/05/home-lab-part-2-docker-setup/Fri, 05 Jan 2018 22:26:47 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/01/05/home-lab-part-2-docker-setup/Deep dive into the details of what is involved setting up for an ever-growing number of applications on a handful of physical servers on my Home Lab.Home LabDockerViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/01/03/home-lab-part1-overview/Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:25:31 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2018/01/03/home-lab-part1-overview/This post is the first in a series explaining the setup I use to run my websites and their related services at home on cheap hardware using containers.Home LabDockerMicroservicesMonitoringViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2017/12/23/continuous-integration-with-travis-ci/Sat, 23 Dec 2017 22:17:53 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2017/12/23/continuous-integration-with-travis-ci/Continuous integration for my open-source projects with Travis CI and code quality services with Coveralls and Code Climate.CI/CDOpen-SourceTravisGitViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2017/12/16/python-microservices-with-flask/Sat, 16 Dec 2017 21:22:30 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2017/12/16/python-microservices-with-flask/This is the story of why I chose to write my web applications in Python using the open-source Flask framework.FlaskPythonMicroservicesViktor Adamhttps://blog.viktoradam.net/2017/12/14/intro/Thu, 14 Dec 2017 21:08:26 +0000https://blog.viktoradam.net/2017/12/14/intro/Blogging on open-source tools, containers, free hosted services, all kinds of DevOps trickery, automation with continuous integration and delivery.IntroViktor Adam