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Running WordPress as a Docker Stack
In the advent of containerized applications it can be quite daunting to get started with docker and multiple containers in a cluster. In this post we will go through some of the terminology and how to get started in a simplified case for a single host, multiple containers application stack, with containers for wordpress, mysql…
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LXD containers now available for Ubuntu
The latest Ubuntu LTS release, Xenial 16.04 , comes with support for a container system called LXD. LXD builds on the existing LXC container system, allowing for more convenient management of those containers. In this post I show how you can test out LXD containers on a Rimu VPS running Ubuntu 16.04. I assume you…
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Using Vagrant to Manage Rimu VPS systems
Vagrant is high level wrapper around virtualization and configuration management software. It simplifies the creation and management of easily reproduceable environments. It is particularly suited for development and test enviroments where servers are brought up and down frequently. It can also be used to bootstrap production systems. It can be used with configuration management software…
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Running Vagrant in your VPS
Vagrant is often used to set up development environments in a standardized way, so that your software project deployed via vagrant has a standard environment with all the operating system components and set-up it needs to work properly. It creates a virtual machine to provide this environment, so that different developers can work on it…
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Free Kubernetes hosting for developers
RimuHosting are working on a command line tool set to easily setup and manage a Kubernetes cluster. We are currently in a trial phase. During this phase we will be providing free Kubernetes cluster hosting to developers needing an easy-to-setup, publicly-accessible Kubernetes cluster to hack on. Just email support at rimuhosting, mention this blog post…
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Kubernetes support on RimuHosting VMs
“Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions. Using the concepts of “labels” and “pods”, it groups the containers which make up an application into logical units for easy management…
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RimuHosting offering CoreOS
You can now order RimuHosting VMs running CoreOS! CoreOS lets you provide startup ‘recipies’ (via cloud init files) to automatically install and provision container based micro services and applications. You can use tools like fleet and kubernetes to manage clusters of CoreOS servers. Setting up a CoreOS server is easy. You just use our regular…
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Getting Started with Docker
Written by Andrew Colin Kissa Introduction We’re happy to announce the availability of Docker support on our VPS installations. In this blog post, we aim to introduce you to Docker one of the most exciting and powerful open-source projects that has sprung up in the recent years. In a nutshell, Docker offers you the tools to…