Some recent work in maintaining the official Perl image for Docker lead me into pulling in different copies and tags of buildpack-deps
more than once, in different machines; as a result, I used a lot of network bandwidth for image pulling. Aside from this, I also run several VMs via libvirt/KVM, via Docker Machine to start up VMs for Docker Swarm and Minikube.
I wanted to save my bandwidth usage, and it turns out there is a way to do this by building on some Docker features...
It has been a while since I last posted, let alone update my infra a bit, so here's one quick entry to document it.
For the longest time I haven't enabled SSL on my blog or other HTTP sites; I used to use Comodo, then StartCom SSL. However, I got wind that StartCom (along with WoSign) will soon be distrusted by Google Chrome, et al. after some reviews of their operation. The good thing though, is that there's now a Let's Encrypt initiative which provides free SSL certificates, so I figure it is high time for me to re-integrate SSL once more.
Wow, she is 26 today. Back in the day, she was just a humble replacement for awk
and sed
, then became great in the late 90's to 2000's as the CGI programming language. Now, with the advent of web applications programming, she's doing it better with a lot of frameworks held together by better glue. And let's not forget the objects and events.
Looking forward to another great year building great stuff with Perl!