Building your own (Domino) containers? Don’t forget to prune Docker
Docker doesn’t clean up after itself. Images, layers, and especially the build cache can grow silently, until your disk fills up. Time to prune.
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Building custom add-ons for your Domino container image
I realised today that there’s a piece of the Domino container project that I presented on multiple times this year, but which neither I nor Daniel ever properly documented. So here’s the documentation on Domino container image custom add-ons.
Continue readingInstalling Domino REST API in an existing Domino container server
Domino REST API is one of the add-ons that you can select when creating a Domino container image. That creates a Domino image that includes everything you need to run the Domino REST API on your server, except when that server already existed before you added the REST API…
Continue readingInstalling Huddo Boards on WebSphere-only Connections
One of the nicer extensions which you get when you install the HCL Connections component pack is Activities Plus, or, if you pay an extra license fee to ISW/Huddo, Huddo Boards. If you don’t want to install the component pack, you can still use Huddo Boards. This article explains how.
Continue readingUpgrading your PostgreSQL database
Some posts are more for my own documentation. This is one of them. It might benefit someone else, though. It describes how to migrate your PostgreSQL database to a later version.
Continue readingMy thoughts on Engage 2024
Last week was the HCL user group event Engage in Antwerp, Belgium. This is a summary of my thoughts on the event.
Continue readingThe conf-file in the Domino Container build script
The new build menu is great, but I want to be able to run the build-script from the command line with the same options as I selected in the menu. Daniel saw the value and created config files for the build-script. This article explains all about them
Continue readingBuilding your Domino Container Image in 2024
It’s been 21 months since I last wrote about the changes in the Domino container project. While preparing for my presentation for Engage, I realised how far the project has progressed since then. Time for an update! This is part 1
Continue readingProtecting your Domino container with fail2ban
Your Domino server could be victim to brute force attacks to guess user’s passwords and subsequently use your Domino server a spam gateway. Fail2ban is a elegant way to stop these brute force attacks. If you use Domino containers, you might have to do some extra configuration
Continue readingDomino containers revisited
Since I wrote my original 6-part series on Domino as a container, Daniel Nashed, the main contributor to the project, did some serious refactoring on the scripts, including some new options. This article discusses the changes.
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