web developer & entrepreneur

Intro

Alpine Linux is an independent, non-commercial, general purpose Linux distribution designed for power users who appreciate security, simplicity and resource efficiency. In my opinion it has become very popular thanks to Docker momentum, because it has a small footprint and is optimized to be run in RAM.

There is official documentation explaining how to install Alpine Linux on a Raspberry Pi. However, I prefer to use Alpine Linux inside dockerized environments and to use Raspbian based on the popular and mature Debian Jessie as OS host on the Rasperry Pi.

I would like to document two techniques for dockerize Linux Alpine and to describe how can be used on your Raspberry Pi. With this documentation you are going to be able to ensure better resource consumptions of docker containers on your Pi.

Introduction

We all know how wonderful piece of hardware the Raspberry Pi is, can do many things, just to mention three cool projects: Multimedia Center, Meteorological Station and Retro Game Console. In this Awesome List you could get a collection of tools, projects, images and resources related to Raspberry universe.

I like to be at the technological forefront, it means I’m always testing services to satisfy some particular interest. Raspberry Pi has become my faithful companion of these hobbies, however many times I have given up to try out a new service because of the anxiety of going through the process of starting from scratch a new service setup and to add unnecessary extra load on my Pi.

Recently, I had the chance to use and setup Laradock, a Docker development environment and this project was a radical change for me in how to tackle development environments. I had already heard about Docker and I always believed that Docker was just a VM manager (what a n00b!), but after using it and reading a lot about it I understood what it really is, a platform that simplify the process of building, shipping, running and sharing applications in different environments and in that moment I’d realized Docker and Raspberry Pi can give me all the confidence to use and build services quickly and efficiently without reinstalling again and again the Raspberry OS.

These days I’ve been thinking about closing my blog (I have years without writing) but because I love to share experiences of my battles against the technology and because I love to provide solutions so others could find an easier path to move on I’ve decide to give me a new opportunity and reboot my mental discipline and start again (never is too late).

I’ve been looking for a cheap (ok, free!) way to manage a queue of tasks/issues because lately I have too many. The solution must be flexible enough to manage the tasks on any device and any place.

JetBrains offers a free license for its wonderful issue tracker called YouTrack, the responsive web design of YouTrack is enough to manage tasks from any device. Furthermore, RedHat and its fabulous product OpenShift offers free hosting for almost all main technologies, this solution is enough to manage tasks from anywhere (ok, anywhere with an internet connection). YouTrack is based on Java and OpenShift support Java, perfect solution was found.

My handy step guide for installing Ant.

Indeed, I want to create another new guide for how to access a remote server using Public-Key Authentication. Why? Basically: I want to use my blog as a technology notebook for my own.

Nowadays it’s very frequently in a web hosting service create and use mysql databases. For instance, my website runs over a 1and1 server, I bought a plan that allow me to create and use until 10 mysql databases, nothing new.

But every time I need to check something on the database, I’m forced to go to the 1and1 panel control and open a phpMyAdmin session to do my stuff.

I remember it was a Friday, I wanted to commit my changes and go home to start a good weekend.

When I tried to add new files to my local git repository, I experienced this issue:

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$> git add .
fatal: CRLF would be replaced by LF in /core/sites/all/modules/thirdlibrary/file.xyz