Tag: docker

Google Drive, Gmail, Photos, Calendar, Maps, Analytics, all replaceable with self-hosted alternatives that don't report your life back to Mountain View.

ctop and lazydocker beat docker stats for live container monitoring. Keybinds, install options, multi-host setups, and tracking a memory leak with each.

Stop letting Docker Hub throttle your CI/CD. Run Harbor for RBAC, Trivy scanning, image replication, and a real UI, on infrastructure you control.

Portainer, Dockge, and Dockhand compared side by side. Portainer handles fleets, Dockge nails single-host Compose, Dockhand gives you multi-host and SSO free.

Obsidian Sync costs $10 a month to move Markdown files you already own. Set up the free alternative instead: LiveSync, CouchDB, and Docker, encryption included.

HAProxy is the battle-tested load balancer powering GitHub, Reddit, and Instagram. Here's how to actually use it without reading 500 config options.

Using :latest in production is a ticking time bomb. Pin your Docker image versions or watch a surprise update break everything at 2 AM.

MySQL 8.0 broke auth, MariaDB forked hard, and Docker changed how you connect. Here's what still works and what'll bite you.

Alpine gives you a shell and apk; Distroless gives you nothing but the app. Compare attack surface, image size, and multi-stage build complexity.

Distroless images contain only your app and its runtime, no shell, no package manager, no attack surface. Here's how to build them.

Learn multi-stage Docker builds to slash image sizes by 90%. Practical before/after examples for Node.js, Python, and Go with real size comparisons.

Master Traefik's label-based routing in Docker: entrypoints, routers, middlewares, TLS, and the mental model that makes it all click.