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 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.
Continue readingDomino-docker explained – Part 6 : Creating your own customisations
In the final part of this series on Domino Docker, I look at how to add your own customisations to your Domino image.
Continue readingDomino-docker explained – Part 5 : Adding add-ons on top of your Domino image
In the previous parts, I explained how to create a Domino image and deploy it. But what if you want to add fix packs to your Domino image? Or Traveler, Volt or Verse? The scripts of the domino-docker project make this super simple. In this part, I’ll show you how to do this.
Continue readingDomino-docker explained – Part 4 : The domino_container script
In part 4 I’ll look in-depth at the script which forms the entrance to all the stuff that’s built into the domino-docker project: domino_container. This script lets you work with the Domino server without ever needing a docker command
Continue readingDomino-docker explained – Part 3 : Running your first Domino server in a container
In part 2 we created a Domino container image. Now we want to start the image. In this part, I’ll show you what to do to make running, restarting and stopping images super easy.
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