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Using docker can become addictive. Once you see how easy it is to download and start a container running an application that normally requires heavy configuration – like a web server, for example – you start to think of everything in terms of docker containers. But with this comes risks. Docker containers can grow in […]
In the article on how to fix the Docker “permission denied” error, we saw that we can use docker to easily set up pre-configured instances of applications so that we don’t have to know too much about setting it up and running it ourselves. Long-running applications like database servers and web servers that require complex […]
From the point of view of someone who’s not very experienced with Linux, it can seem to be a very niche scenario where you’d want to append something to a file. But as soon as you begin managing a server, you’ll see we have many reasons to add content to a file. As a result, […]
A bash function is a way to encapsulate some functionality that you foresee yourself reusing repeatedly. Last week, I wrote about using a bash alias for complex commands, and we saw that functions could be used similarly for commands that require dynamic arguments instead of static ones. But we can use functions for a lot […]
Designing the infrastructure for NameHero is something I’m personally very passionate about. When cloud computing started gaining traction in the late 2000s, I was pumped. Finally, I could build a hosting stack that would seamlessly scale with website traffic—something that had been a chronic pain point for all my businesses. In late 2014, when I […]
When you first start using Linux, you’ll need only a handful of commands. As you gain experience, you learn more of them, but the complexity of the commands increases. Commands like awk, df, git, etc., all have a huge range of options and endless combinations of them. Every Linux system administrator and every server has […]
Zsh is a shell program like bash. While it has many improvements and features that bash doesn’t have – like autocompletion and improved history navigation – bash is still the standard shell everyone is used to. You can mostly run bash scripts in zsh without any change since it’s designed to be compatible. Regarding setting […]
Docker is a way for developers to package applications with all their dependencies and configurations into a single image that can run on any setup, making it easy to port applications across machines in a consistent manner that removes all complaints such as “it works on my machine”. These images or containers are designed to […]
Vim, released in 1991 is now almost 30 years old. But far from being outdated software, vim is more integral to the Linux experience than ever. Every person who has used, or still uses Linux is also a vim user, and at the very least, has used it to peer into configuration files, if not […]
Docker allows you to create “images” for your application that contain everything needed for the app to run on another machine. The process of creating this image is called “building,” and during this build process, you need to specify all the files and folders required for your application. You can add these in two ways. […]