DevOps

Easy maintenance mode with nginx

So I combined a few solutions I found online to come up with a quick way to set up maintenance mode using nginx. Ideally it shouldn’t happen but in times of emergency in can be good to knock up a quick maintenance page for everyone but your own internal ips.

SugarCRM 7 — Roll SugarCRM with Docker

I find trying to replicate the SugarCRM environment locally a real pain.
One of the main issues is simply that Sugar requires such old versions
of PHP to be installed, especially compared to other web projects I have
that implement the latest/greatest versions…

Quick Salt Minion Setup

I find myself setting up salt minions a LOT. So I figured I’d write down
the steps in this concise format.

On the minion

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saltstack/salt
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get…

Rolling your own mail server with Salt

Recently I decided to migrate my mail server and I took this as an
opportunity to better get…

Using PPAs with Salt-States

I couldn’t seem to find a decent tutorial on using PPA’s to manage repos
with salt states so I’m documenting it here.

Say you want to install golang using these

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:duh/golang…

Simple ubuntu backup to S3

After browsing the web for ages to find a decent solution to backup my
server to amazon s3 I finally came across one and I’m just throwing it
up here. So basically all I need it to do was backup my sites(filesystem and mysql databases) and some config for lighttpd.

CLI Dash

Due to being flu-ridden for the entire holiday period, I decided to
write up a quick tool I’ve been wanting to write for ages. It’s written
in Python, so go easy, I’m no Python expert and I’m sick.

Simple ubuntu backup to S3

After browsing the web for ages to find a decent solution to
backup my server to amazon s3 I finally came across one and I’m just
throwing it up here.

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