September 2016 – Beginning Of Expression

Using Docker and a Private Registry with VPN On Windows

September 5, 2016 Nikhil Wanpal Comments 2 comments

Wasn’t that a very specific title? Docker has a very good documentation and reading that alone is enough for most of the straightforward tasks we might want to do. But as always some practical tasks are not straightforward, hence this blog. What we are going to see here today is how to setup docker toolbox on a Windows machine, make it work even when VPN is connected, make it talk to a private, insecure docker registry (that is why VPN)…

Redis Cluster: Fact Sheet (Not Just Issues)

September 3, 2016 Nikhil Wanpal Comments 0 Comment

Redis and the Redis clustering works very differently from the other data stores and data store clusters. The differences are not always as obvious and may come up as realizations down the line while using Redis, like what happened in our case. We are using a Redis cluster, with which, fortunately, we have not faced many issues so far. But that does not mean we will not and we shall need to be prepared. Recently we were working on getting…