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The Docker Ecosystem: Service Discovery and Distributed Configuration Stores — step-by-step Docker tutorial on Progressive Robot

The Docker Ecosystem: Service Discovery and Distributed Configuration Stores

One of the core technologies that many Docker environments rely on is service discovery. Service discovery allows an application or component to discover information about their environment and neighbors. In this guide, we will discuss the benefits of service discovery within a clustered Docker environment. We will focus mainly on general concepts, but provide more specific examples where appropriate.

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How To Scale Ruby on Rails Applications Across Multiple Droplets (Part 1) — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Scale Ruby on Rails Applications Across Multiple Droplets (Part 1)

In this the cloud provider article we are going to see how to simply scale Ruby on Rails applications horizontally, distributing its load across multiple machines running on Unicorn all carefully set up behind a master load balancer running Nginx HTTP server, tasked with welcoming and handling the incoming requests and balancing the load.

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How To Use Celery with RabbitMQ to Queue Tasks on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Celery with RabbitMQ to Queue Tasks on an Ubuntu VPS

Celery is an asynchronous messaging system that can be used to execute tasks in the background. Written in Python, this flexible system can be used to make your applications more responsive by offloading long-running tasks to the background, while your main program continues to run normally. In this guide, we will cover how to install and use celery with RabbitMQ, a messaging system.

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Uma Introdução ao Kubernetes — step-by-step Docker tutorial on Progressive Robot

Uma Introdução ao Kubernetes

Kubernetes é um poderoso sistema open-souce, inicialmente desenvolvido pelo Google, para o gerenciamento de aplicações em container em um ambiente clusterizado. Ele visa fornecer melhores maneiras de gerenciar componentes e serviços relacionados e distribuídos em diversas…

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Blueprint: How Ghost Migrated From Dedicated Servers to the cloud provider — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Blueprint: How Ghost Migrated From Dedicated Servers to the cloud provider

This the cloud provider Blueprint article was written by Sebastian Gierlinger, a Senior DevOps Engineer at Ghost. It covers the steps that were taken to migrate the Ghost(Pro) infrastructure from dedicated servers to cloud servers. In each step, Sebastian will discuss the challenges that were faced, how each challenge was solved, and why each solution was chosen. He’ll also provide links to relevant resources that he found to be helpful.

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