Automation

Migrating this blog from a self-hosted Ghost instance to a new CDN that also builds your site – for free.

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.

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.