Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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File Uploads to AWS S3 Made Easy!
If you need to let end users of your website or web application upload files, read on! Using AWS, there is an easy way to use S3 and Lambda to handle file uploads in a totally scalable way. The solution doesn’t require any changes to your web application, only a little JavaScript added on your…
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Allow GitLab CI to use Docker Registry with Self Signed Certs
This is a follow-on to my last post about how to fix Docker errors when using self signed SSL certificates on your Docker Registry. When you are using GitLab-CI, to push or pull from your private Docker Registry with self signed SSL certs, and using the Docker-in-Docker Runner approach, you need to tell each created…
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Solution for Docker Registry Error: certificate signed by unknown authority
If you are running a private Docker Registry, the Docker ecosystem makes it very difficult to run without SSL in place. Even thought the out-of-the-box Docker Registry container runs without SSL, over HTTP, many things won’t work properly, or at least easily, without installing SSL certificates. You can learn how to configure the registry server…
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New 10MinuteMail Beta!
10MinuteMail is over 14 years old! When I created 10MinuteMail back in 2006, it was for two reasons: first to help me deal with all the spam email I was getting and second so I could teach myself the JBoss Seam framework. I had no idea at the time that so many other people wanted…
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Office Hours – Redux
I am offering my knowledge and advice for free! I have decided to repeat an experiment I did back in 2013, and offer Office Hours. The idea is that if you’re interested, we can meet for coffee (if you’re in the Boulder, CO area) or setup a Zoom video call or a regular old phone…
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AWS, WordPress, Bitnami, and Ansible – A Journey
In The Beginning… I’ve been running a number of WordPress sites at AWS, and using the Bitnami AMIs to do so. They make it super easy, just fire up an instance of the AMI, and boom you have a full WordPress environment up and running, with Apache, WordPress, and a database. When The Palace…
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