One of the most used container images on sloppy.io is nginx an open source reverse proxy server which can be used for a lot of scenarios. A popular one is to use nginx in combination with php-fpm where nginx is forwarding requests to php files to the php-fpm container and then delivers the output back …
In this how-to I will show you how you can build your own GPS-powered tracking system in a few minutes. For this we use the following components: The free Android app Zanzito to send the GPS data to a message broker Eclipse Mosquitto as a message broker node-RED to connect mosquitto with open street map …
All in this post: MySQL’s latest version 8 is causing trouble / why you should generally consider Docker image tags / and how to deploy directly from your docker-compose.yml to sloppy.io! MySQL 8 not supported by some Docker images MySQL has released its new version 8 earlier this spring and while it’s now generally regarded …
We’ve just released two new major features for our docker container hosting platform: console access and the opportunity to create snapshots for every container. My initial plan was to demonstrate the snapshot feature by creating a new article in Grav and then reverting to a snapshot version before the article. Grav, which was just awarded “Best Flat File CMS 2017“, is a very cool …
Regardless of what you might have read or heard about databases on Docker: It’s a thing, and a major one at that. According to Datadog, the second most popular Docker image is Redis, the third most popular image is Elasticsearch, followed by Postgres, and MySQL on places five and six – and finally there’s MongoDB …
Minio is a s3 compatible, distributed object storage server written in go. It comes with a server, a CLI, and a neat UI: Like for all new cool projects, there is an official docker container for minio, so it takes just a few seconds to test it locally or to deploy it to sloppy.io. As …
This is a guest post by sloppy.io customer Nils Dehl As a JavaScript consultant and trainer at dkd Internet Service GmbH I’m often on the road. During that travel time I like to listen to audiobooks with Spotify. Spotify has a huge amount of uncut audiobooks which is great. An audiobook normally consists of dozens to hundreds of …
Logfiles are the resource no. 1 to get information about your running docker applications. sloppy.io provides a basic view of your logfiles under “Analytics” for every app. You can also process them when using our CLI. Still, it is sometimes more comfortable to use services which are specialised on logfiles. In this post, I will show you …
GitLab is not only a great code repository but also comes with powerful continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) features to make it your one place to manage and build software projects. Last year they introduced the GitLab Container Registry to make the puzzle even more complete. As we got a lot of requests if it possible to deploy …
Travis CI is a CI service that is free for public github projects. In this post, I would like to shortly describe how you can use Travis CI to implement an automatic Docker deployment according to sloppy.io. The image is built, pushed and deployed to sloppy.io with the CI/CD workflow as soon as a git push …
