February 11, 2017

High Availability

Having a good software is not enough. Just ask GitLab IT guys about what recently happened. Intro Speaking about a production environment, you can not trust your servers. Never trust your system. Every single service must be in HA. But, what is HA? This short post, will introduce you to HA, this is not a full guide but a simple use case explanation. HA in a nutshell HA is when you have at least two resources, working alone or together.

January 31, 2017

Are microservices bad?

One of the most recurring argument on the web about DevOps, is microservices and how useful those are. But.. Microservices are good! It only depends how many they are and how much time you plan to allocate maintaining them. We had about ten microservices. Each one doing something very specific. A good application, in my opinion, is for large business where you have different IT departments, also maybe with different knowledges.

January 28, 2017

Ghost. A fresh start

As first post for this new tech blog, I am going to introduce you on how to install Ghost on you very own server, with Docker. Introduction I always create a start.sh for each container I want to start, with all the properties in place. This allow me to backup with git, all my containers configuration scripts. Folder structure mkdir starters/ghost && cd $_ mkdir data && touch config.js start.