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By Tom Fenton
Tom explains that most multi-tiered apps are dynamic and deployed in multiple locations so their components also will need to be updated.
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One of the things that you can do with the Fault Injection Simulator is to force an EC2 instance offline as a way of testing your high-availability strategy.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom shows how to use Docker Compose to deploy PostgreSQL and pgAdmin from a file.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom demos table joins, shell scripts for repetitive tasks and using "exec" to run commands inside a container from the host system.
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By Tom Fenton
After his introductory series, Tom Fenton deploys a database on Docker and integrates it with other apps deployed from other Docker images.
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By Tom Fenton
The less-expensive Quadra is a better fit than Raspberry Pi for those who want/need a low-cost software platform to use and experiment with.
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Setting up a peering connection between VPCs in two different regions can help to simplify your disaster recovery efforts.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom examines different ways to store persistent data such as volume and bind mounts (or host volumes).
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton explains how networking works with containers.
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By Tom Fenton
After introducing the basics, Tom Fenton looks at the ephemeral nature of container instances and how to use networking and persistent storage with them.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton begins a series on how to install Docker containers on a Linux system while discussing images, performance hits and how to use network/storage with containers.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton looks at specs, design and build quality before discussing how well this low-priced device performs as a thin client, KVM server, Docker server and repository for edge device data.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton looks at companies he found especially interesting this year.
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Brien Posey details several reasons why a container image should not be dynamically updated.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom pushes the low-cost Raspberry Pi competitor beyond its intended limits to see what happens.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom looks at the hardware, extends storage and performs basic storage/network tests on the $29 Raspberry Pi alternative.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom finds it won't do 720p video streaming but is still impressed with the value of the $29 Raspberry Pi alternative.
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By Tom Fenton
The $29 Raspberry Pi competitor continues to impress Tom, though he suffers a couple hangs while testing various applications.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom has thought about investigating Pi alternatives but was put off by sketchy companies and long delivery times -- and then he found the Inovato Quadra.
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By Tom Fenton
From big announcements to small-vendor scoops to after-hours fun, Tom makes the case for attending the Barcelona event.
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Unlike Amazon's web interface, AWS does not automatically update command-line tools such as the AWS Tools for PowerShell.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom discusses some of the key announcements made during the event this year.
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By Tom Fenton
For a family member, Tom sets up the Terramaster and tests it for suitability as a NAS for his own home VMware lab.
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The whole point of using Elastic Beanstalk is that it allows your application to scale to accommodate demand.
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Elastic Beanstalk lets you run cloud applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.