Jekyll is a static site generator written in Ruby and designed to be a simple way to create a blog-like website. It’s what GitHub uses for Pages, which means you can also host your Jekyll-powered blog there for free. Static HTML pages load fast, there’s no database or programming involved (unless you add your own Javascript or… Read more »
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Multiple Boot2docker Profiles On Mac OS X
Boot2docker is a lightweight linux virtual machine for running Docker on OS X and Windows, providing non-Linux users with easy access to the world of Linux containers. The lightweight VM comes in the form of a downloadable ISO which is then used to create the virtual machine. This means you can have more than one boot2docker… Read more »
Taming RabbitMQ
Let me start this off by saying RabbitMQ is a great piece of software. It excels in areas where other messaging stacks are either too cumbersome or overly complicated. Plus, it’s written in wacky Erlang. With all of its merits, however, a common hurdle is trying understand its RabbitMQ’s exchange, queue, and routing key terminology…. Read more »
Golapa v2: Dockerized Launch Page Written in Go
The latest version of Golapa comes with some significant changes, namely extending support beyond Google App Engine. While we are still supporting GAE builds using the same codebase, by dockerizing Golapa we’re making it a lot easier to develop locally and deploy almost anywhere Docker is supported. Launch pages are supposed to be simple, right?… Read more »
Launch CoreOS instances with iPXE and cloud-config
While still in its infancy, CoreOS is getting a lot of attention lately as a fast and lightweight Linux distribution geared towards large-scale server deployments. It’s bundled with software like Docker, Fleet, and etcd to allow for quick cluster deployments and manageable app containers. One particular point that helps ease its adoption is that it supports iPXE booting… Read more »