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It’s been 2 years since I migrated this site from a native install on a VPS to another VPS running Docker. I covered my migration in a number of posts, the first of which is here: The surprising thing (maybe? maybe not?) is that the site has been up and running for the past 2 …
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When creating a new Datasource on Weblogic 12.1.3 to MySQL 8.0.15, I got this error: Unable to load authentication plugin ‘caching_sha2_password’.com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:910) A quick search found this question, and the solution is to switch the password encryption back to the approach used in prior MySQL versions with: ALTER USER ‘youruserid’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY ‘newpassword’;
This website running this blog has been running in Docker containers on a small-ish 4GB VPS for the past 9 months pretty much issue free. You can follow by journey to migrate this site to Docker in posts here and here. Since I’ve been spending time recently getting up to speed with Kubernetes, the next …
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Atlassian Confluence is already available as a Docker Image from the Docker Hub but you still need to provide a database instance for a production setup. Let’s build a docker-compose file to create a container from this image together with a container running MySQL. First, per the docs on the Docker Hub page, create an …
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