I've been moving more and more of my infrastructure to be self-hosted recently. Part of that involves setting up CI jobs for testing and publishing artifacts, mostly rust crates but also this very blog. I really wanted to re-use my existing Nix flake ... read more →

AWS Beanstalk is a good 'intermediate' level hosting for Docker containers. It gives you load balancing and scalability pretty much out of the box in exchange for being a bit more opaque to configure. The Docker bits are a bit more hidden away there. ... read more →

I am quite bad at remembering how to launch docker to have everything set up correctly. Hence the following - a script that launches any commandline specified in its arguments inside a new docker container. Current directory is mounted inside the con ... read more →

I've recently tried running some quick Docker commands using host's directory as a volume: docker run -i -t -v `pwd`:/mnt debian:jessie bash -c "ls -hal /mnt" ls: cannot open directory /mnt: Permission denied I use Fedora as my main OS, wh ... read more →

Recently I was playing with a fully Dockerized setup of Jenkins at work and found a curious issue there. Whenever Jenkins was polling the git server the side effect was that it created a zombie ssh process. The issue is actually remediated by the Jen ... read more →