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Who is this Chaos Monkey and why did he crash my server?

I had a perfect server, it was so pretty and rock solid and so I named it Petra. It was perfect in every way, everything was configured and tuned just right, it had perfect 100% service record and 753 days of uptime. I've spent a lot of time and…
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What are the pro and cons of SnowFlakes Servers, Phoenix Servers and Immutable Servers?

I'm curious about a matrix like comparison on security/ease of management/forensic ability for each type of server. I may forget some more key features of each type also. I've a general idea about the types but a reference matrix would be of help…
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Does Docker allow containers to be OS agnostic?

We currently use a Windows based server to host 2 VMs. One VM uses Windows with a Windows app and the other VM uses Linux with a Linux app. Is the below scenario possible? Bare server with Windows 2016 (no VMs). Install Docker engine. Install…
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Teaching an old dog new tricks: Finally adopting the micro-service architecture

Is it too late to teach an old dog a new trick? I've always been the guy with a monolithic application/codebase. For more than 10 years now, I've gotten good at caching, writing good SQL queries, using Redis to store frequently called read data,…
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VM Hosts: Single Large Host or Few Smaller Hosts?

First, I apologize if this is the wrong forum to ask this question. I was wondering if this is a ServerStack or DevOps question. In either case here it goes: I am building a small software shop and I am trying to figure out the infrastructure and…
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How do you hide sensitive information held in variables on a docker-compose file

I am fairly new to DevOps. I have managed to build myself a CI/DI pipeline for my open source project. As soon as I check-in some code into GitHub, Travis CI takes over, it builds a fresh docker image of my code, pushes it to DockerHub, then the…
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Nginx /foo and /foo/ redirects

I want both http://domain/foo and http://domain/foo/ requests to serve a given resource. Here's the relevant part: location / { rewrite /(.*) /ipns/QmdpoFuwY/$1 break; proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080; } with this config only: curl…
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How to serve a custom index.html using the stock nginx docker image?

How do I serve static content from the default nginx docker image? Given: root@mordor:~# root@mordor:~# docker image ls nginx REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE nginx latest …
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What are the advantages of using AWS nameservers as opposed to servers provided by other registrars?

I am transfering a domain name from namecheap to aws route 53 service. AWS provides you with three options when transfering: Continue to use the name servers provided by the current registrar or DNS service. Import name servers from a Route 53…
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Any site to host my little utility script?

I have a small node js script running in my aws ec2. It is just one file. If I hit the server with a query param, it will do some utility job (like hashing) and return the result in html. Since its a small script I wondered if there is any site that…
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Using tmux to host a server

So I have some API server that I need to be up 24/7. Is it a bad idea to open up a tmux window and run the server application? When you run a binary in tmux, the binary stays running even when you close the tmux window. The binary also stays running…
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Jenkins SSH connection on remote server immediately closes after login

I created a user for jenkins on my remote server that worked previously just fine, but now when I try to login with shh on the server the connection closes immediately after login. This is strange because on the website that is hosting jenkins it…
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Re-initialize etcd-cluster completely (on coreos)

Over the past updates (espcially the update to etcd-wrapper: https://github.com/coreos/coreos-overlay/tree/master/app-admin/etcd-wrapper) my etcd-cluster with five machines broke. Now I'm trying to recover from that. Currently I only use it for the…
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Domain pointing problem for my Web App (Nginx + Docker + Angular)

I am new to deploying web apps, and I am trying to deploy my Angular frontend using Docker and Nginx on a VPS. The app works locally on the VPS, but I am unable to access it via my custom domain. Attention I replaced server-ip -> VPS ip…
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Options to build a production server as a solo python developer?

I'm new to DevOps and overwhelmed with all the options. I write python web applications as a solo developer, on my local machine. I have a "staging" server and I have multiple websites under different subdomains (eg. myapp.staging.mywebsite.dev). I…
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