Backblaze B2 + RClone for power users – automatically backup data to cloud – encrypted

Backblaze offers cost effective object storage solution that can be used to storage your files securely. Backblaze has two products, B2 and Personal Backup Backblaze Personal Backup offers unlimited backup storage to save all the files on one or more hard disk partitions on your Mac and PC. At the time of writing this article,…Continue reading Backblaze B2 + RClone for power users – automatically backup data to cloud – encrypted

Setup scalable graylog on Azure Kubernetes (AKS) with Private IP and Nginx Ingress Controller

Recently I have been tasked with standing up a graylog cluster for our new development team. Even though I have stood up a highly scalable graylog on a regular IaaS/Virtual machine, utilizing Azure AKS was not something that I have done in the past. I was always skeptical about how would Azure handle the data…Continue reading Setup scalable graylog on Azure Kubernetes (AKS) with Private IP and Nginx Ingress Controller

Setup graylog locally on Windows/Linux/Mac

Here is the quickest way to deploy a development version of the Graylog instance locally on your desktop machine. Prerequisites Depending on your environment, you will have to install Docker Once installed, run these commands and you will have a fully working graylog running locally at http://127.0.0.1:9000/ Default username/password is admin/admin Expose additional ports By…Continue reading Setup graylog locally on Windows/Linux/Mac

Automatically update running docker container with the latest image

Watchtower is an open-source tool that scans the running container and restarts those containers with the same parameters if it detects a newer version in the repository. It supports public such as docker hub and private repositories such as Azure Container Repository or AWS ECR By default, Watchtower monitors all the container, but most of…Continue reading Automatically update running docker container with the latest image

Automated MongoDB backup on Docker Swarm and save on AWS S3

AWS doesn’t have a PaaS service offering for MongoDB at the moment. So it is the DevOps’s responsibility to maintain their own backups of the production MongoDB databases. So I’ve developed a custom script that makes use of Docker containers to deploy a backup container. This script will generate backup in specified intervals and upload…Continue reading Automated MongoDB backup on Docker Swarm and save on AWS S3