Helm, its one amazing piece of software that I use multiple times per day! What is Helm? You can think of helm as a package manager for kubernetes, but in fact its much more than that. Think about it in the following way: Kubernetes Package Manager Way to templatize your applications (this is…

In this post we will use Grafana Promtail to collect all our logs and ship it to Grafana Loki. About We will be using Docker Compose and mount the docker socket to Grafana Promtail so that it is aware of all the docker events and configure it that only containers with…

A popular Firefox Extension Tree Style Tab lets you work with tabs as trees. The only addition that I would personally like is to hide the tabs, which at the time was not available out of the box. In this post we will configure the extension to be able to…

This is a short post on how to create container images with docker and buildx so that it’s compatible with ARM architectures such as the Apple M1 and Raspberry Pi 64 bit. Dockerfile We will have a simple dockerfile that runs from a alpine image and we will be installing curl: …

In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to keep your docker container images nice and slim with the use of multistage builds for a Hugo documentation project. Hugo is a static content generator so essentially that means that it will generate your markdown files into html. Therefore we don’t need…

In this tutorial we will setup and configure a LEMP stack, which enables us to serve dynamic content with PHP and MySQL. The term LEMP stands for: Linux Nginx (pronounced “En-gin-ex”) MySQL PHP Once we installed our LEMP stack we will also run our PHP and MySQL website which will…

In this tutorial we will develop our own Discord bot using Python. The source code for this bot will be stored in my github repository About the bot First we will create a basic discord bot that will greet the message sender, and then we will create a Minecraft Bot, that will enable…

In this tutorial we will dive a bit deeper into the docker-monitoring-stack-gpnc repository, on how to setup a docker monitoring stack that runs grafana, prometheus, node-exporter, cadvisor and alertmanager, which includes node and container level metric dashboards. About The repo has been built to get a monitoring stack up and running…

In this tutorial we will install the Geth implementation of Ethereum on Linux and we will be using the light sync mode which will get you up and running in minutes, which only downloads a couple of GBs. Once we have our node setup we will be using the API…