Hippo Toes This is a follow-up to my earlier post on running gitlab-ce on a qnap NAS using nginx and letsencrypt. The basic ideas are discussed in that post. This post achieves the same result but via docker compose. The resulting docker-compose file is available in this repository. docker-compose We will use version 3 of docker-compose. I’m not a docker-compose expert, and I’m quite lazy so there are probably better ways of doing this (e.

I’ve been experimenting with glacier from aws to backup some of our content. The glacier service sounds very attractive (great durability, uptime etc.) but the pricing can be quite difficult to pick apart. This post documents an experiment to see how it might work for us and to get an idea of any potential costs. I think everything I want to do will fit in the free tier, but time will tell!

Linux Installers and Serial Connections From time to time I still find the need to install virtual machines over a serial connection. I configure a serial console on ALL of my virtual machines as an out-of-band management option for when I screw up their network config, so it seems natural to want to install them using a serial connection as well. One advantage this brings is that I don’t forget to leave them configured with an unnecessary and potentially problematic VNC server configured after install.