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This blog post covers quick notes from session 2 of Reclaim Hosting’s EdTech Flex Course on understanding containers. This session covered installing NextCloud on Reclaim Cloud by looking at docker run vs. docker-compose commands. We also looked at quick docker commands to run from terminal & defined Volumes, Bind Mounts, and Variables.
Happy 9th birthday to our dear @ReclaimHosting! ? — Lauren Hanks (@brumface) July 23, 2022 On Saturday Lauren Hanks reminded me that Reclaim Hosting celebrated its 9th birthday. I get confused on the official formation date, I oscillate between the … Continue reading
This post was originally published on Lauren’s Sandbox and covers quick notes from session 1 of Reclaim EdTech‘s July Flex Course on Understanding Containers. Quick Links Welcome to Understanding Containers Week 1: What are containers, and what is Docker? Video: What are containers and cloud hosting? Docker Glossary Video: Basics of Command Line Getting Started with Docker … Continue reading Quick Notes from Understanding Containers, Session 1
Life at Reclaim has been busy these last few months. Consider this the first of a couple Summer “Check In” posts. You can also read previous summer reflection posts if you’d like! Performance Reviews → Self Evals One of my priorities as a leader is to make sure the team …
A couple of weeks ago I did a quick stream (ok it wasn’t quick, it was almost 90 minutes) on the Basics of the Command Line.
My goal was to start at the beginning, with navigating around files and folders and editing text, while picking up some tips and tricks along the way, as well show why the command line is still so useful and important. I spend a lot of time trying to drive home that you should definitely definitely use the tab key to autocomplete paths as it will make your life easier.
This is a quick little post to document something I’ve found handy! A common way to issue a Let’s Encrypt cert and get things to load on Reclaim Cloud over HTTPS is to use an NGINX Load Balancer. Here’s an example environment, one I use to run Foundry Virtual Tabletop:
The trick is some applications that you run won’t automatically redirect URLs with HTTP to HTTPS, so you have to manually type HTTPS in your address bar.
Have I mentioned it’s container month at Reclaim Edtech recently? Well, it is and that means I’m playing with installing apps, or even re-visiting apps we’ve already gotten running, which is the case here. Tim Owens already documented the process … Continue reading
Just over two years ago I wrote about spinning up a work experiment called Reclaim Radio using Azuracast. We used it irregularly and eventually it died on the vine a bit, especially given I was so used to broadcasting through … Continue reading
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