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Boris, Challenge Accepted!

Sep 26, 2020 · 2 min read

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It all started with the Covid Lockdown. For the first time, Italy has complied with the RULES. 97% of people complied with the restraints imposed by a government that certainly did not shine out of charisma, perhaps fear helped.

AWS ECS is NOT Docker Swarm

Aug 14, 2020 · 3 min read

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Amazon Elastic Container services (ECS) is the Amazon Solution for running docker containers on Amazon.

The Single-Point-of-Failure called “Cloudflare”

Jul 21, 2020 · 1 min read

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On Friday one of the biggest content delivery network (CDN) had a configuration issue on its DNS, causing a global outrage for about half an hour. Hacker news has a long thread about it, but the embarrassing point is a lot of services was affected (Patreon, npmjs, DigitalOcean, Coinbase, Zendesk, Medium, GitLab…) including healthcheck 3-thrd part services (!)

Misterio: Ansible and Saltstack killer in docker

Jul 9, 2020 · 1 min read

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Misterio: Ansible and Saltstack killer in docker

Misterio is a docker-compose based Ansible alternative.

https://github.com/daitangio/misterio

Why

I need to show Ansible and Saltstack configuration manager are nice tools but in a K8s world, the same result can be achieved in a much simpler way.

It was to teach the container way to some co-worker.

Without effort, I end up with a tool I am using on my home machines, which include a bunch of very different architecture (Ubuntu Boxes, ARMs RPi2, Windooze).

So I think it would be nice show Misterio to the world...and yes there is a bit of magic, called containers.

Mail Server on Docker: sanity checks

Jul 1, 2020 · 1 min read

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[UPDATED 21/3/2022]

I have a shiny mail server on gioorgi.com. I decided to manage it on first person because it is important to have tight control on your email, in my humble opinion. It is not strictly necessary, but lending your email address to big company like Googles, Microsoft, Yahoo and so on could be a issue if you get banned by them for whenever reason.