• How To Run Node Apps In Docker

  Aug 13, 2015 •

  • nodejs
  • docker
  • devops
  • coffeescript

  I like to use docker to run my server side apps and my node apps aren’t exception. Decided to show the docker file I use for my node apps and explain what I’m doing there. I copy the entire source, having the files I want to exclude in docker ignore file. The most important thing to note is I don’t copy node_modules directories, I do fresh install in docker. Main reason is that docker container is kinda different operating system and potentially a different distro (Debian in this instance, because I love it!) than dev or CI box. So why not build the code where it’s gonna run and if there are issues I’ll know about it sooner. Also note that I run npm install with production switch so it doesn’t install dev dependencies, which I don’t really need to run my app.

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• Installing Openvpn In Osmc

  Aug 19, 2015 •

  • devops
  • vpn

  I was running Raspbmc in Raspberry Pi which I like to use once a year (but I’m not gonna write about that part). What’s interesting about that device is that I always have it on and it’s connected to my router, so it makes it a great candidate for installing vpn server in it. And instead of getting another Pi to run vpn server and keep it up and running 24/7, it’s a good idea to just install OpenVpn on it also since it’s built on top of linux and that’s what I had. There have been lot of changes to the project and it also changed it’s name to OSMc. So I just decided to reformat, get OSMC and install OpenVpn on it again. Since I didn’t provision that server with chef (would be interesting to see someone run chef client in Pi though) I had to do everything manually again. Decided to write about it in case others would be interested in creating similar setup also. And since OSMC is built on top of Debian, this guide mostly applies to any Debian based setup.

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