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Connect Caddy to Porkbun

Caddy offers a great web and proxy server experience with minimal configuration and automated TLS certificates. Learn how to connect Caddy to Porkbun to get TLS certificates by managing your DNS records for you automatically. 🐷

29 February 2024 · 4 min · 703 words · Major Hayden
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the CoreOS

Here’s a blog post to answer the question: Why do you write so much about CoreOS? 📦

13 October 2023 · 5 min · 944 words · Major Hayden
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Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose

Sure, docker-compose is great, but could we get similar functionality using just the tools that are built into CoreOS? Can we get automatic updates, too? Yes we can! 📦

25 September 2023 · 7 min · 1412 words · Major Hayden
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Deploy a containerized Ghost blog 👻

Ghost delivers a great self-hosted blogging platform that deploys well in containers. Let’s deploy it on CoreOS along with Caddy. ️📝

27 June 2023 · 6 min · 1131 words · Major Hayden
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Launch a watchtower container via podman quadlets

Podman’s new quadlet feature lets you specify container launch configuration via simple systemd-like unit files. 📦

31 May 2023 · 4 min · 649 words · map[email:major@mhtx.net name:Major Hayden]
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CoreOS as a pet

CoreOS provides a fast track to running containers with a light weight immutable OS underneath. This doesn’t mean that you can’t keep it around as a pet instance. 🐕

25 May 2023 · 6 min · 1144 words · Major Hayden
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Automatic container updates with watchtower

Watchtower keeps an eye on your running containers and updates them when new containers appear upstream. 📦

4 January 2023 · 3 min · 481 words · Major Hayden

docker-compose on Fedora CoreOS

My go-to method for managing containers easily is still docker-compose. It works really well on Fedora CoreOS. 📦

17 December 2022 · 6 min · 1214 words · Major Hayden
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Deploy Fedora CoreOS in Hetzner cloud

Launch your containers on Fedora CoreOS instances in Hetzner cloud with a few workarounds. 🚀

20 August 2021 · 5 min · 1017 words · Major Hayden