Docker and Locales

Finally set out to solve this once and for all. I followed some other tips around the Docker-webs, and the locales I saw others using didn't cut it. When trying to do a simple regular expression in Ruby via gsub, I finally got this error. publish.rb:84:in `gsub…

Deploying Docker with OpsWorks

Using Docker to run several self-contained web applications on a single server is ground-breaking; but how easy is it to deploy OpsWorks, or for that matter Chef? I hope to show just how easy it can be. This article assumes you already have your LAMP web application Docker images built…

Why Deploy Docker with OpsWorks?

I love Docker, and I love Amazon Web Services' OpsWorks. However, OpsWorks utilizes Chef, and I find Chef clunky. Or at least OpsWorks' version of Chef Server. Apart from Chef, there are a lot of nice things to gain from OpsWorks. I've merged the best of OpsWorks with Docker and…

Nginx dynamic hostname discovery for Docker

I've read several references mentioning the best way to put several LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) based Docker containers on the same server was to put them behind an Nginx container. Nginx acts as a light-weight proxy. The problem I found however, was no one explained the best way to tackle the problem…