Author Archives: George Valentin Voina

Portable #RaspberryPI #Docker #Swarm – Static IP, Ethernet based, #Portainer

By | October 14, 2017

As I discussed in post Portable #Docker #Swarm made of #RaspberryPI – Updated hardware there were several hardware updates done to the swarm. One of the updates was adding a switch and connecting all the Raspberry PIs to the switch. First version of the Docker Swarm was done using the wifi connections of the PIs.… Read More: Portable #RaspberryPI #Docker #Swarm – Static IP, Ethernet based, #Portainer »

Portable #Docker #Swarm made of #RaspberryPI – Updated hardware

By | October 14, 2017

I wanted to update my hardware setup for the Docker Swarm cluster from post Portable #Docker #Swarm made of #RaspberryPI. The idea was to make it more portable, more reliable and a bit faster. The following steps were done: Add ethernet support The original setup used a small Edimax router with the Raspberry Pi nodes… Read More: Portable #Docker #Swarm made of #RaspberryPI – Updated hardware »

#nginx proxy_pass an URI to another server with a different URI

By | August 22, 2017

Nginx can be used very nicely to aggregate resources after the same fronted by using it as a proxy. I want my set-up to be like: URL1: https://blog.voina.org -> nas1 hosted wordpress URL2: https://blog.voina.org/store -> nas2 hosted store with URL https://nas/store URL3: https://blog.voina.org/doc -> nas4 hosted wiki with URL https://nas4/wiki How can we do this… Read More: #nginx proxy_pass an URI to another server with a different… »

Blog Links: A fabulous description of the migration of GitHub to Kubernets and other GitHub news

By | August 18, 2017

Finally the description of the migration of GitHub to Kubernets. This is so nice when you see open source getting used in the huge scale services. Kind of makes it easier for you to push this kind of stuff in the conservative IT business industries. Enjoy the article Kubernets at GitHub A wonderful new GitHub… Read More: Blog Links: A fabulous description of the migration of GitHub… »

#Biometric #authentication is useless and dangerous alone

By | October 14, 2017

Again and again the same myths and misunderstandings resurface from time to time. I noticed again a misplaced hype in an article shared on twitter about how biometric authentication will simplify banking. I have to share again something I learned many years ago when I was junior research student in a computer security group and… Read More: #Biometric #authentication is useless and dangerous alone »

#DRBD: Synchronization of sites after the connection between sites is down for a long time

By | August 10, 2017

In a DRBD setup as described in #DRBD based disk replication of a production cluster to a remote site cluster on RHEL 6 there is a special case when due to some external issues the communication line between the sites is down due to technical reason for a longer period of time (days). The line… Read More: #DRBD: Synchronization of sites after the connection between sites is… »

#Regional Participation Within #European Multi-Level #Governance

By | July 24, 2017

I am pleased to make some promotion for the new book of my wife, that deals with European politics. Interesting and complicated stuff from the world of European Governance. ” Why does the region of Saxony-Anhalt participate in the European Multi-Level Governance system and how does this occur? This book provides an account of the… Read More: #Regional Participation Within #European Multi-Level #Governance »