docker - Matt Kimber

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A collection of 5 posts

Setting up Docker and Docker Compose on AWS

Setting up Docker and Docker Compose on AWS

For most of my Docker development, I use William Yeh's Docker-enabled Vagrant boxes, but for Amazon Web Services I quite often find myself on a default Amazon Linux AMI which doesn't come as readily set up out of the box. The default Amazon Linux AMI

25 Minute ELK Stack With Docker - Part 4

25 Minute ELK Stack With Docker - Part 4

I'm going to take a slightly different route with this article. Previously (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3), we set up an ELK stack almost anyone could use, providing they set up the right grok filters and figure out how to send data to it. This time I&

25 Minute ELK Stack with Docker - Part 3

25 Minute ELK Stack with Docker - Part 3

In previous articles in this series (Part 1 | Part 2) we set up a functioning ELK stack in 25 minutes, and added nginx for a reverse proxy with some basic authentication. Now we have that ELK stack, it's time to put a meaningful amount of data into it.

25 Minute ELK Stack With Docker - Part 2

25 Minute ELK Stack With Docker - Part 2

In the last article in this series we set up a functioning ELK stack in 25 minutes. But we left a few things still to do for a production-quality system; some form of authentication, tuning ElasticSearch to prevent queue-limit problems with large quantities of data, and having persistent

ELK Stack in 25 minutes with Docker

ELK Stack in 25 minutes with Docker

Let's say you've got an application which outputs log files to a directory. Somewhere on your server is a file called applog_20151116.log, which contains a whole bunch of unstructured log entries output by your application - debug statements, errors, exceptions, stack traces and all sorts