005 : Dockerized

Hi there. Long time no see.

I’ve been busy but is working on getting back to writing :-)

Meanwhile I’ve been geeking a bit with Docker.I wanted a practical exercise so why not trying to host a website on it. This blog is now served from a Docker container on a Digital Ocean VPS. I’ve also deployed a Let’s Encrypt certificate. This blog is now full HTTPS Yay :)

Links and notes on the setup:

• Setting up Nginx through a container (through Digital Ocean)

• Setting up Let’s Encrypt cert for Nginx

• Final container start call

This call includes

• Port mapping for HTTP and HTTPS
• Mounting volumes for Nginx root
• Mounting config file for Nginx
• Mounting Let’s Encrypt SSL cert and keyfile

As I have now a container infrastructure, I can deploy other apps super quickly. So my 2nd exercise came to mind very quickly. Let’s deploy a Tor relay using a container.

There is a link for that

• Setting up Tor in a Docker container

A couple of minutes later, here is the result.

A couple of Todo items for me to play with in the next couple of weeks

• Implement Docker-composer
• Implement a reverse proxy container so I can host multiple sites on the same server
• Deploy Drupal websites via Docker