Backing Up Docker Volumes

To automate docker partition backups, I recommend using Docker-volume-backup image (https://github.com/offen/docker-volume-backup). This lightweight image (about 15 MB) allows you to connect to any volume in docker and backup files to a local directory, S3-compatible storage (AWS S3, MimIO, Ceph, etc.), or send save it to a remote device via WebDAV or SSH.

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Install and Configure Zabbix Proxy on Linux

Zabbix proxy is one of the infrastructure components that allows you to collect monitoring data from multiple devices and send data to the Zabbix Server. Zabbix Proxy can be used to collect monitoring data from remote locations, from hosts behind a firewall, or to reduce the load on the central Zabbix Server in large environments.

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Getting Started with MySQL/MariaDB Initial Configuration

In this article, we have described the basic configuration settings that must be set when deploying a standalone server with MySQL or MariaDB. We’ll look at the initial configuration parameters that must be checked before starting the server.

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How to Install and Configure a Ceph Storage Cluster?

Ceph is an open-source software-defined distributed file system. Ceph allows you to create a fault-tolerant distributed data storage available over the TCP/IP protocol. Ceph offers several storage access interfaces: object, block, and file. In this article, we’ll show how to install and configure a ceph cluster using the Quincy release (17) in this example.

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