Cristian Livadaru's Blog

My personal view on things

Backing up databases to Minio S3 with Docker

You have lots of databases and you want to back them up to a central location. You could use a cloud provider, but what if you want to keep the data on your own server? Minio S3 is a great solution for this and with Docker it’s easy to set up.

Fixing GitLab CI: dial tcp: lookup docker no such host

Another issue I keep encountering with project upgrades, which I tend to forget about, is that during the build phase on GitLab CI, the old dind (Docker in Docker) setup no longer works, resulting in a ’no such host’ error message.

Wallabag: Invalid datetime format

This pesky little issue prevented me in adding a lot of links to wallabag, but as it turns out, the fix is really simple.

Assets missing in Rails Docker container

So you’ve deployed your new shiny rails app as a fancy docker container in production … but what’s that? Where the f* are all the assets?