Unattended docker container updates

To keep your container infrastructure up to date and therefore secure, there are two primary objectives that you need to achieve: Keep the host‘s operating system up to date Keep the content of your containers up to date Update the operating system Updating your operating system is quite straight forward. Just use the well known package managers to do the job for you. E.g. for Debian this would be as easy as running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on a regular basis. Continue reading

Docker Image Review: jwilder/nginx-proxy

Ever wondered wether there is a good alternative for scenarios, where a full featured ingress proxy would be overkill? Here it comes: jwilder/nginx-proxy. The image can especially be useful when setting up an ingress concept for the first time. Nginx is well known in the world of classic server administration and web hosting. So why not use your familiar web server also in your containerised environment?

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