Introduction This post serves as a companion to my repository, which provides an automated setup script for deploying a Redis cluster. Designed to streamline the process of configuring a clustered environment, the script enables users to quickly establish a functional Redis cluster with minimal manual intervention. In this guide, I’ll explain the purpose behind this […]
Tag: Docker
Notes from Docker Up & Running
Docker Up & Running Recently I was taking a deep dive into the workings of Docker with the help of Docker: Up & Running. These notes list useful commands and info for later use, covering ways to handle, check, and tune containers and images. Monitoring and Stats docker stats <container-name> This one shows a live […]
Coding challenge – HTML web server in PHP
I wanted to learn a bit more about concurrency and network programming, so I built two TCP socket servers in PHP as a coding challenge. It’s a practical way to practice and get a grip on managing multiple connections at once. I’m not going for anything complex—just experimenting and picking up the basics step by […]
Setting up MySQL replication with Docker
Introduction Setting up MySQL replication is a powerful way to enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of your database system. In simple terms, MySQL replication is a process where data from one MySQL database server (known as the primary or master) is automatically copied to one or more additional servers (called replicas or slaves). This […]
Setting up WordPress development environment with Docker
One of the biggest challenges in web development is to have a stable development environment and assuring that the website works when deploying on different servers. Docker helps us build isolated containers that give a this stable and predictable environment and saves many headaches when debugging our website. Thanks to the preconfigured images available on […]
Docker volumes vs bind mounts
By default a docker container won’t store any persistent data, so anything that we write to its writable layer won’t be available once we stop it.When running Docker containers we might be interested in persisting certain data. This can be achieved by using either volumes or bind mounts. Below I’m describing main differences between the […]