The most common pattern for using Docker to build and deploy software in an image uses a single Dockerfile to build the software and produce the image that gets deployed. The basic pattern goes: FROM base-image RUN install-some-extra-build-tools COPY . /build-directory RUN /build-directory/build-my-software CMD /run/my/software This works, but you end up with a great deal […]
At FP Complete, we’re no strangers to running complex web services. But we know from experience that the simplest service to maintain is one someone else is managing for you. A few days ago I described how secure package distribution with stackage-update and stackage-install works, focusing on the client side tooling. Today’s blog post is […]
The Problem Recently we needed to redirect all Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) HTTP traffic to HTTPS. AWS ELB doesn’t provide this automatic redirection as a service. ELB will, however, let you map multiple ports from the ELB into the auto-scaling cluster of nodes attached to that ELB. People usually just point both port 80 […]