Hi folks. Got an update for the backup script. This time, you’ll have the ability to implement your own upload capabilities. I provide a mock implementation for the required functions. Here is the script again, now modified and a bit cleaned up. I hope it’s helpful. ...
Hi Folks. Previously we created a Minecraft server using Docker. After my server got popular in the family, and a lot of stuff started to pile up on it, as a good IT person, I’m backing up the world once in a while. For that, I’m using AWS S3 with the CLI and a little bash script which runs once a week. The script is really straightforward. I’m doing manual versioning, although S3 does provide one out of the box. However, amazon’s S3 versioning doesn’t allow limiting the number of versions being kept. And since I’m doing that anyways, might as well take care of the rest. ...
Hi Folks. Intro Today, I wanted to write about how to create a secure server in a container. Ideally, you don’t want to run your server on your own machine. Running it in a container gives you a much needed control and an extra layer of security. Docker On OSX While on a mac, you have a couple of options to run docker. Docker-Machine Docker-Machine Docker machine is very simple. It just creates a Linux vm in the background on the given driver, for us it will be VirtualBox. Network, Memory and port-forwarding can all be managed through the VM directly. Then running and starting it is trivial through docker-machine start. ...