I really like the way we configure crons in our Yii application – any developer can setup a cron with just a code comment. As example, look at this function header comment that will result in the function being triggered automatically every 3 minutes: /**…
Spyros and Panagiotis recently gave a presentation at a coworking space in Athens (The Cube), at the Docker Athens community meet up, concerning Micro Service implementation and tools / techniques we use in PPH. Topics covered were: What is a micro service architecture Advantages…
In one of our projects we provide our developers a mysql container for the local development environment pre-seeded with tables and data so the app will work “out of the box“. Previously we built the mysql container from a raw ubuntu image but now that…
We wanted to migrate our self-hosted trac wiki to Confluence, hosted by Atlassian (the makers of Confluence). There is a tool called the UWC (Universal Wiki Converter) that can help us. First we need our trac data in a format that the UWC can process….
Update: Since 7/May/2014 docker v0.11.1 was released with a feature called “Link hostnames“. It is best to use them instead of environment variables and skip reading this blog post. If you use Docker with php FastCGI Process Manager (php-fpm) then you may find that container…