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Turns out if you have an older base image downloaded locally and you try to rebuild your own image based on it a couple of years later, you could get errors running apt-get in your own Dockerfiles. I just got errors like this rebuilding an image that I first created 2 years ago: Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ …
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If you’re running Docker without TLS (hopefully never in production, for dev only), set DOCKER_HOST to host-ip:2375 and should should be good to go: export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://host-ip:2375 If you’re using TLS certs, point to 2376 on the remote machine and specify a path to the certs: export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://host-ip:2376export DOCKER_CERT_PATH=/path/to/certs Pass the –tlsverify param to ensure certs …
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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Following on from my first attempt to get Oracle 19c running in a Docker container and running out of disk space in my VM, I increased the disk space to 40GB and restarted the steps to build the image. It took about 1.5hrs to complete building and doing the install into the image. Although building …
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