Docker images, containers, Compose and building reproducible environments.
Bon. Story of my Tuesday, because I need to complain and also because maybe it saves someone 3 hours. New colleague, new MacBook with an M3. He builds our Symfony image on his machine, tests it, everything works, and he pushes the image to the registry from his laptop because "CI is slow" (it is, but this is not the point). Deploy on our servers. Container starts and dies directly: exec…
Problem: when my parents watch something on the phone, Jellyfin transcode on CPU and the i5-8500T go to 95%, fans loud, and everything else on that node become slow. The iGPU (UHD 630) was sitting there doing nothing. It took me 2 evenings to make Quick Sync work inside an unprivileged LXC, so here is everything. 1. Check the host ls -l /dev/dri crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 0 ... card0 crw-rw---- 1 root render 226,…
someone in a Facebook group just share a screenshot of his Portainer, on public IP, no login, asking "how to secure?" bro. it is already too late. wipe it, put it behind Tailscale or WireGuard, then we talk. please :(
سلام. I write backend for a ride hailing and delivery app in Tehran, Go and Python, team of 14. Many people outside do not know what sanctions mean for a normal developer, and many developers in other sanctioned countries ask me the same questions. So this is the long version. Everything here is about using public open source and running things ourselves. Nothing exotic. The real problem is over-compliance US…
Many people ask in my Self Hosted topic "what do you actually run", so here is the full tour. It start 4 years ago as one old laptop under the TV. Now it is a 12U wall cabinet in the corner of our spare room, and my wife call it "the heater". Hardware pve1, pve2: Lenovo M720q Tiny, i5-8500T, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVMe each. Bought second hand, very good value pve3: HP EliteDesk 800 G4 Mini, i5-8500T, 32GB, 512GB NVMe NAS:…
