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At around 5 AM EST, I was violently awakened by my smoke detectors. The first thing that went through my mind was, well, that server I have on is burning the house down. It was not dramatic but just the ever-so-charming “Get up on a ladder and replace my batteries” alarm. Now that I am […]
A global outage that was not caused by a network change? Read More »
I can only speak for myself, but I am most definitely a creature of habit. I am a self-proclaimed CLI junkie. A CLI junkie is a hard person to change in this world of cloud and infrastructure as code. Being this creature of habit, I am setting out on a journey to see – can
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Continuing our previous blog post, What is Docker, we will now see what it takes to install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 and test to ensure we can start a container. Prepare the host Dependency Installation Install the required dependencies to get docker running. These packages are: Docker Installation Add Docker GPG key to the keyring
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What is Docker? Docker is a platform as a Service (PaaS) that utilizes operating-level virtualization to deliver software in a container construct. A container can be thought of as what is needed to run that specific application that you want to containerize, with all the binaries and libraries needed for that specific application to function.
Cloud computing comprises several models with entirely different meanings for different people. To cut out all the “he said this, she said that” that can happen. NIST, or the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has defined deployment models, service models, and essential characteristics of Cloud Computing. This is my take on their definitions are
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