As a PHP Developer I’ve always had instances of webserver, php & database server running as first level services on my Development machines. I can claim that configuring LAMP (recently LEMP) stack was always one of the first things I’d do when I get a new machine. I’ve been using Docker for running other services… Continue reading LaraDock: Dockerizing my PHP Development Environment
do you find it hard to breath when listening to music with earphones?
I was in the lift the other day when I noticed it for the first time, I had my earbuds on and listening to music on the way back home. The lift was taking longer than usual, it lift was stopping on every single floor and new people who were back from work coming in,… Continue reading do you find it hard to breath when listening to music with earphones?
run quick ad-hoc tasks using Ansible
Ansible with no doubt is one of the most popular tools that its name always comes up in every discussion about DevOps Automation. Its no joke that Ansible does its best when it’s used against an inventory of infrastructure containing nodes with designated roles and tasks. at my work I often find myself in need… Continue reading run quick ad-hoc tasks using Ansible
a more Production friendly ELK stack with Docker
recently I spend a big chunk of my time in office doing DevOps related tasks. Elasticsearch is one of the technologies that we use a lot for both production and development. ever since I had to deal with elasticsearch instances in the office I decided to move them to docker containers, that would make my… Continue reading a more Production friendly ELK stack with Docker
Upgrade to latest nginx on CentOS 7
The nginx version that is shipped with CentOS epel repository is quite old. To upgrade your nginx installation you need to create a repository and add nginx servers to it. to do so create a file called nginx.repo on /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo and place following content in it. then simply stop nginx service and run the yum update command. this will be using… Continue reading Upgrade to latest nginx on CentOS 7