CI/CD, containers, version control, servers automation.
Running Plex Media Server with Docker is a popular demand for organizing home media with Plex app. If you want to know a bit about the concept, Plex Media Server is a software application that allows users to manage and stream their media from a central location. This blog entry only outlines the step-by-step procedures…
Many developers have asked me the effective way to test their code in a multi-server environment. In the most case, I suggested them to go with Docker and Docker compose so that everything can be simulated in an effective manner. And in most of the case, the reverse proxy/balancer services will be done with HA…
This article focuses on how to profile PHP applications with Tideways XHProf and XHGui. I myself prefer this approach than the old XDebug and Webgrind so most of my recent projects have been utilizing this. Since this is just simply a note, Google is your friend for the mentioned tools. 0. Install PHP 7.2 FPM…
If you ask me: what the hell Rocketchat is, then you should better ask Google. This article notes steps to install RocketChat with Docker Compose for development purpose. 1. Create docker-compose.yml I want to expose the mongo port (27017) to the host network so I also declare it in the ports param. I also map the…
Today I decided to move my self-hosted gitlab instance to Docker so that I will not need to reinstall and configure lots of things when migrating from one host to another host. So I blog this entry to note steps to install gitlab docker on Ubuntu. Install Docker CE (or Docker Compose if you want)…
For a long time, I have stuck on many hosted monitoring softwares to avoid management effort on a self-hosted monitoring system. However, free stuffs cannot go long so I must move from services to services. This makes me tired! Thus I decided to return to a self-hosted solution so that I do not need to…
Today I restored a Cloudera disk to Proxmox KVM to try out this excellent big data open source. I think the procedure is not hard, but it is quite verbose and it might take time to find out where to find each option. So I decided to note here the procedure to Create a new…
Well, after a year returning to Docker, I can still be considered as a beginner since I forgot almost things that I did before :shame: So this entry, Docker – Beginner’s Notes, is just a way that helps me in the future (hopefully). Useful commands to remember: docker images, docker ps -a, docker rm <container_name>, docker…
Quick note here the necessary steps to install and run Selenium with FireFox browser in CentOS. We will need to setup XWindows for Headless Selenium with FireFox webdriver. First, install Xvfb: yum -y install firefox Xvfb libXfont Xorg Then, install X-desktop: yum -y groupinstall "X Window System" "Desktop" "Fonts" "General Purpose Desktop" Next, launch a XWindows Virtual…
Today I will mention how to install Jenkins and necessary plugins/tools for doing Continuous Integration. This is just a very first step of using Jenkins for PHP Continuous Integration work. I choose to start with a Virtual Machine with Ubuntu 16 and use LAMP with PHP7 for the web stack. First, we will use Apache…