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Nginx is a popular Web-server/-proxy that is often used to serve frontend applications within a Docker container. But did you know that you can also implement some (business) logic with Nginx? Here is how!

I have been working with Kubernetes as a container orchestration tool for years. Although I think Kubernetes is a great tool if it solves the issues it was meant to solve it also comes with, at least one 😀, issue - Kubernetes is a complex tool to operate and to work with. In this post, I describe my first steps to get in touch with Nomad by HashiCorp, which promises to be less complex than Kubernetes.

In this blog post, I want to describe a workaround how to get downloaded binaries to work on NixOS.

My first experiment with NixOS was likely in October 2021 😄. Since then, I tried to get used to NixOS and/or Nix as a package manager alternative several times but with little success. In this post I want to illustrate how I finally found a purpose for NixOS and also how this allowed me to dodge its steep learning curve!

As you probably know, I am a big fan of the plain text file format. Whenever there is the possibility of a solution based upon plain text files, I’ll (likely) take it. In this post, I will explain how I follow this principle with my personal accounting workflow.

Recently, I stumbled over Hurl which is an exciting tool in my opinion. To play around with it, I created a sort of integration test for this homepage utilizing Hugo, Docker, GitHub actions, and Hurl.

Due to recent written warnings because of including Google fonts I wrote a little python script that checks the resources, like fonts, a webpage loads.

Imagine you require a simple reverse proxy for one of your servers but you don’t have the permission to install Nginx, Apache etc. Or you really just need a simple proxy and don’t want to mess around with proxy configuration. In this post we will have a look for an comparatively new proxy called Caddy which is a perfect match for this scenario.

What is so special about a single binary with Go you might ask? That is nothing special and a major feature of Go out of the box. Things change when you want to bundle template files and static assets for your Gin-Gonic web application in one binary. In this post I’ll explain how I built a single binary web application with HTML templates, CSS, JS and more included.

In this post I want to briefly describe how to build Docker images for both platforms at the example of a Docker image for troubleshooting purposes especially within a Kubernetes cluster.