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Code is read more often than it is written. Nothing is truer than this statement. This means that when writing code it is important to have a good idea of what you are doing. Write clean code, which is simple or easy to reason about. Since if you can't ...

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non-root user inside a Docker container

One of the things that you notice when using Docker, is that all commands you run from the Dockerfile with RUN or CMD are performed as the root user. This is not only a bad security practice for running internet facing services, it might even prevent certain applications from working ...

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Deployment of Ceph using custom Atomic images

As part of providing a scalable infrastructure, many components in the datacenter are now moving towards software-based solutions, such as SDN (for networking) and SDS (for storage). Ceph one of these projects to provide a scalable, software-based software solution. It is often used in conjuction with OpenStack for storing disk ...

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Setting up a powerful self-hosted IDE in the cloud

Setting up infrastructure should be as simple as playing with LEGO. With the advent of Docker, IT has underwent a dramatic change. For instance, it became easy to setup throw-away development environments. These could then be used to create clean environments to perform builds in. And eventually, containers are starting ...

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Hello, Internet!

Today I decided to pick up blogging again and asked the question; what to use? I had a simple requirement; 'it has to support Markdown-formatted documents'. The reasoning behind this is simple; I want to be able to use Pandoc to generate other kinds of output if needed. Plus GitBook ...

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