One repository, one Dockhand, four machines. Megatron is still the odd one out. I did not plan any of this. It happened the way most homelab things happen: I ran one container, then five, then I could not remember which host was running what. True story. Many homelabers can validate its true. The first improvement was …

I did not start this because I was looking for a new observability platform. I started because I wanted to check what my multiple Hermes agents were doing. I have quite a few of them now (I am obsessed). Some run as profiles on the same machine, some run in Docker, and some live on other homelab machines. When I …

It is almost a month now that I wanted to write this short review, for Container Security by Liz Rice, one of the most concise tech books I have read recently. Target audience Advice for DevOps friendly software engineers (like me), if you are into docker and containers I would add this book to my must-read list on the …

I guess lots of people will have something similar, I thought to share my small customized container. So here, you can find a small Alpine Based container, stuffed with bash curl envsubst kubectl helm (client) It is mostly used as a _gitlab runner, in order to _talk to kubernetes clusters (injected with the appropriate …

Personal note to me rather than something special, if you use Boot2Docker on your MacOSX and you want an easy way to your docker command line client to connect to the underlying boot2docker vm, add on your /.bash_profile_ file the following line. Credit's to this stackoverflow post. 1bash $(boot2docker shellinit …