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Here is some preliminary notes on how one can restore a Discourse instance and change the domain name.

A solution to the idea of sharing PGP private keys without risking to lose everything if one of the machines you shared it had been accessed.

Ever wanted to target salt states based on data only the underlying OpenStack cluster knows. Here’s how I did it.

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.

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.

Here’s how I setup a Discourse web application so that I can scale it by adding more Docker instances while keeping a low number of exposed web servers

Need to run your web app with Python 2.7.9, but server environment uses Ubuntu Long Term Support? Don’t replace Python, leverage VirtualEnv instead!

Cloud-Init is made in a way that it handles distribution specific package installation details automatically. With it, you can create a new salt master in a few commands.

Avez-vous déjà voulu automatiser le déploiement de votre infrastructure serveurs web de A-Z? C’est exactement sur quoi je travaille en ce moment.

Envoyer et recevoir des courriels implique une combinaison de systèmes qui interagissent d'une façon assez complexe et un problème de réception ou de classement peut être causé par plusieurs raisons. Étant donné que tout est très intrinsèque sur un serveur, voici une procédure pour s'assurer que tout est en ordre.