This post is a preview of a series of posts to come, which will document the process of containerizing the entire charlesreid1.com website.

We will run through a lot of different moving parts and how to get them all working:

• Multiple domains and subdomains pointing to different services
• Docker pod for all services
• Nginx + SSL
• Reverse proxies via nginx
• Apache + MySQL + MediaWiki
• phpMyAdmin
• Gitea
• Configuration files under version control
• Data managed with backup/restore scripts and cron jobs
• Static content under version control
• Files server
• REST API
• Management LAN

All of the code for doing this is in docker …

These notes are also available on git.charlesreid1.com here or in https://git.charlesreid1.com/charlesreid1/aws.

AWSome Day Notes: Part 2: Networking, Security, and Miscellany

Following are some notes from Amazon's AWSome Day (Tuesday, February 27, 2018).

Nomenclature

Elastic: You'll see the word "elastic" on a lot of Amazon's services. The "elastic" concept refers to a service that is able to handle huge increases in traffic (Pokemon Go - number of users grew orders of magnitude faster/larger than what they designed for).

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): The AWS equivalent of a virtual private network (VPN). A VPC is …

These notes are also available on git.charlesreid1.com here or in https://git.charlesreid1.com/charlesreid1/aws.

AWSome Day Notes: Part 1: The Basics

Following are some notes from Amazon's AWSome Day (Tuesday, February 27, 2018).

EC2 Costs and Scheduling

Cost of a node:

• Important to understand Amazon's price model: users pay for access, not for hardware
• Cost of AWS node is cost for on the spot access

Scheduling:

• If you can anticipate your usage, you can schedule instances in advance, and get a discount
• Discount of 50% for one-year reservation (if you keep it busy for 6 months …

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Running with Gitea
  • Binary or Source
  • Configuring Gitea Directories
  • Opening the Firewall
  • Setting Up and Configuring Gitea Server
• How To Use Gitea
  • Pushing a Local Repo Into Gitea
  • Copying Repos from Github to Gitea
  • "Moving" Repos from Github to Gitea
  • Pushing Commits to Github or Gitea
  • Backing Up Gitea
• How Gitea Fits Into Git Patterns
• Wrapup

Intro

In this post we'll cover how to set up a web-hosted git server that uses Gitea, a Github clone that is written in Go. While this post is not, strictly speaking, research, having your own hosted git server certainly …