Developing serverless web applications on Firebase is great. Quick and easy for new project ideas. The most important part of a Firebase deploy is the Firetore rules since the client speaks directly with the database. Todd Kerpelman at Firebase made a couple of really great videos on unit testing the security rules which is really […]
Using Google Cloud Build to build and deploy your frontend NodeJS application is well documented in Building Node.js applications and Deploying to Firebase. How ever all these, or at least a majority of them, are based on Linux based development systems. If your on a windows machine you can run into a very specific problem […]
A proper SSL certificate on the Unifi Controller is more of a cosmetic fix then a security one. The self signed certificate is fine from a security standpoint but enjoying when accessing the controller. I run my controller in a docker container on my swarm and have Traefik for ingress and SSL. Read more about […]
A reverse proxy is used to distribute the traffic over a scalable application running in several containers. This is needed since you can’t publish the port for all the containers. Traefik is a docker aware reverse proxy that can route and distribute all the incoming traffic to the correct containers. We are going to solve […]
It all started with a central database for my Kodi media players. Then I migrated the setup from a dedicated Raspberry Pi to running MySQL on docker swarm. That gave me much more stability and availability for the solution but it still needed backup. The setup ended up with limiting the docker container to a […]
I’m virtualizing several test nodes on a proxmox server in my homelab. Since proxmox doesn’t use thin provisioning for disks I’m a bit cheap with the diskspace. My 6 node docker cluster was awarded 8Gb of root disk each and now I had less then 100Mb free. There are three steps to extend the root […]
