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  • Add OpenStack instance meta-data info in your salt grains
    Ever wanted to target salt states based on data only the underlying OpenStack cluster knows. Here’s how I did it.
    Tags
    • linux
    • operations
    • salt-stack
    • cloud-computing
    • open-source
  • Converting a dynamic site into static HTML documents
    The following are the commands I ran on the last successful attempt to replicate the site I was working on. If you want to make a static version of your site, you might find those helpful.
    Tags
    • archiving
    • procedure
    • webplatform
    • techniques
  • Run a NodeJS process through forever from within a Docker container
    I’ve recently been through the steps to make a NodeJS web app to run from inside a Docker container. The objective of this project was to simplify the deployment of a web app that had many moving parts by making it a re-deployable service that is self-contained.
    Tags
    • linux
    • docker
    • open-source
    • operations
    • procedure
    • webplatform
  • Make Discourse “long polling” work behind Fastly or Varnish
    In the Discourse forums, if you’ve seen something saying that you have to provide a different origin to make long polling work, maybe you didn’t understand what you have to do. Here are the details of why and how to do it correctly.
    Tags
    • linux
    • operations
    • webplatform
    • cloud-computing