Pages with tag Docker MAMP

Connect with SSL to MySQL in Docker container MySQL might throw an error when an application connects without using SSL to encrypt the connection. Therefore the MySQL team clearly hints it is best to use SSL connections to MySQL servers. Clearly a database connection has critical data that you don't want to leak to 3rd parties, and encryption is a great counter-measure. The official MySQL Docker container automatically generates a set of SSL certificates to use for connections, so let's see how to put those certificates to use.
Easily manage Docker containers on both local and remote Docker hosts with Portainer Docker is a wonderful advancement for software engineers and system administrators. It simplifies launching and maintaining background processes, while adding a layer of much-needed encapsulation and security. But the default command-line administrative tools are less than pleasant to use, and we instead want a good GUI with which to manage our Docker hosts. That's where Portainer comes in. It manages the Docker containers we have running on our local host, or on remote hosts.
Familiarizing ourselves with Docker Getting to know Docker by running a few commands.
Getting started with Docker: Installation, first steps

Let's start this journey into Docker by learning how to install it on popular systems, namely macOS, Windows and Linux. Installation is very simple thanks to the hard work of the Docker team. You youngsters don't know how easy you have it now that Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows exist. Long gone are the days when we had to install VirtualBox along with a specialized virtual machine to use Docker.
HTTPS with nginx, using Lets Encrypt, proxying to Gogs and Jenkins back-end services

Modern development environments require a continuous integration system, along with a reasonable git-based repository hosting service. It's possible to rent these services, Github and Gitlab are both excellent hosted git repository services for example, and there are several hosted continuous integration systems. Gitlab in particular is a one-stop-shop offering both Git hosting and continuous integration in one service. But, you can easily host Git and Continuous Integration services on your own hardware. And with a little work the services can be HTTPS-protected using Lets Encrypt.

Installing Gitea for self-hosted Git service, replacing Gogs While Gogs is an excellent tool to have a self-hosted Git service (like Github), I recently found out the project is semi-abandoned. A group of Gogs users launched Gitea as a replacement, and in any case it looks like a better server. The goal here is to install Gitea, evaluate it, and see how to convert Gogs-based repositories over to Gitea. The result will be managed in the Docker self-hosting machine I have at home.
Running MongoDB with Docker and Docker Compose MongoDB, as one of the popular NoSQL databases, is part of many software projects. Hence, one must sometimes know how to configure and setup MongoDB in a Docker environment.
Scheduling background tasks using cron in a Docker container The cron service has, for time immemorial in Unix-like systems, long helped us schedule the occasional background process that keeps our systems ticking. Typically it is used to gather up or summarize log files, or collect and process data from external systems. In the old days when e-mail exchange, and the all-too-important Usenet news exchange, happened using UUCP over modem lines, a cron job scheduled regular UUCP calls to neighboring servers. Having cron running in the background is part of normal Unix/Linux/etc system admin practices. Even though the crontab format is kind of hokey, we all learn it and set up automated background tasks to keep the world functioning. Let's see how to set this up in a Docker container.
Self-hosted Docker infrastructure in home or office using low-cost computers like Intel NUC Using Docker, and a simple small computer, you can build a powerful computing "cloud" in your home, on your desktop, at low cost, giving you control over your data. If you need more power, adding another computer or three to the mix quickly adds more capabilities. For almost any popular 3rd party service like Github, Dropbox, and Trello, there is an open source package that might even be better. Those cloud services are temptingly easy to sign up and get going, but there are tradeoffs. What happens when a 3rd party service suddenly shuts down? That has happened on multiple occasions, sometimes deleting customer data in the wake. Or what about miscreants breaking in and stealing data? With open source operating systems, open source packages like Gitea, Nextcloud, and Kanboard, you gain control over your destiny.
Set up MySQL using Docker on your laptop Setting up MySQL on Docker is fairly simple, and the MySQL team has created a flexible Docker image that can be used in many ways. Databases, like MySQL, serve as the data persistence and retrieval layer of many applications we might deploy.
Set up PHPMyAdmin and Wordpress Docker containers using existing MySQL There are several ways to launch a PHP service, backed by a MySQL database, on Docker. That combination is literally the LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/etc), and we can use Docker to easily set up this combination on our laptop or deploy it to a production server. Elsewhere we went over setting up MySQL on Docker, so lets now demonstrate the LAMP Stack, on Docker, by deploying PHPMyAdmin and Wordpress on our laptop.
Understanding MySQL the Access Denied error in or outside a Docker container I once wasted more than a full workday fighting the MySQL error message Access denied for user (using password: YES). After finding the solution I want to help others avoid this problem. Along the way to fixing the issue, I learned a lot about how MySQL authenticates user ID's. I've been using MySQL for years and had glossed over this topic, but it turns out to both not be terribly difficult, and very crucial to the solution.
Using multiple databases and PHPMyAdmin in a single MySQL Docker instance Sometimes our applications need multiple database, but with a single database server instance. The typical recommendation is for each Docker container to serve a single application. For databases, that means one database server for each application. That's the result of following a theoretical best practice, but isn't there another best practice to avoid excess processes and overhead? MySQL, like most other database servers, can support multiple databases, multiple user identities, and has an extensive system for controlling access on IP address, user names, and passwords. The MySQL container for Docker is easy to use, but supports only a single database instance per server container. In this article let's learn how to go ahead and configure the MySQL container for Docker to support multiple databases each with their own user ID.
Wordpress local development environment with Docker and Docker Compose on your laptop We normally install Wordpress on a public Internet server, and installation on your local machine is normally limited to developing or testing a Wordpress feature or theme. The development loop is a lot shorter when you can directly edit Wordpress files on your machine, as opposed to working out a method to edit remote files. While it's convenient, it's not always clear how to create a website hosting environment on your laptop. In the past we would use MAMP (or the Windows equivalent), which is a macOS-native environment for running Apache/MySQL/PHP stacks. But today we have a different tool, Docker, that is easily able to run that stack, as well as any other stack. Docker easily runs on a laptop, so let's take a look at using it to run a local Wordpress development environment.