56 posts tagged with "docker"

In my previous post, I've illustrated how to start Firefox or GIMP in a browser. This was the first part of this series about graphical user interfaces because, until very recently, I didn't know it was possible to run GUIs with Docker and that's just amazing.

So, using Docker, we can start Firefox or GIMP or even ... Doom 2.

In this blog post, we'll create our own xeyes Docker image, then play with Firefox and Gimp.

In a future article, I'll be covering a subject I've just discovered: the possibility of running graphical interfaces in Docker and, therefore, having a Linux application running in Windows.

But first, let's take a look at a few graphical interfaces, such as Firefox or GIMP (image processing software), which can be run as if they were web applications.

There are plenty articles on the Internet but I didn't find the one that allowed me, without an impressive amount of trial and error, to find the solution.

So here's another article to add to the long list: how to access a private project stored at Github when creating a Docker image. In other words, the SSH key is not stored in the image. Docker will just use your key when executing the project recovery layer (the one containing the git clone instruction) and will not keep track of the key afterwards.

In a previous article, I've explained how to run a static HTML site in seconds.

The result was a site running on your computer; using http. Let's go one step further and learn how to configure Docker to use https i.e. SSL and encryption.

In this article, you'll learn how to use Apache, nginx and PHP on your machine and be able to start https://localhost.

Imagine the following situation: you've a HTML website on your computer and you would like to run it. But how? Should you install Apache or Nginx? Yes, you should ... or just run exactly ONE COMMAND to start Docker.

Years ago, to open a local website, it was needed to install f.i. EasyPhp or Wamp, install and configure a lot of things, restart the computer, make sure EasyPhp or Wamp are running in background and ... pffffiou.

Those times are thankfully, definitively over.

In 2018, I published the first version of my free tool, aeSecure QuickScan.

Still up to date, my scanner detects over 45,000 virus signatures and is optimised for Joomla sites.

aeSecure QuickScan recognises native Joomla files from version 1.0.13 up to version J5.1.0.

Simply download the scanner onto your site, run it from a URL and it will scan the site to quickly identify certain viruses or suspicious signatures.

At work, I'm part of a team of PHP developers where we work together to create a very large proprietary application with a web interface.

This application is developed using the Laravel framework and we use PHPUnit and Pest to run our unit tests.

However, in addition to the unit tests, we are also putting in place a tool that will simulate actions on our interface, such as accessing the login page, entering a login and password, simulating the click on the 'login' button, wait our main screen is displayed then, on the new page, assert a lot of things / do a lot of tasks.

It's a bit like asking a human to play out scenarios over and over again, every day, to make sure we haven't introduced any regressions in our latest developments, like a cool new feature whose code changes have broken a previous feature.

For this, we're using Behat. This is a PHP composer dependency you can add to your project (or a new one). The idea is to be able to write assertions in pure English (or French) like "I go to the ABC website then I click on the blog menu item and I should receive a list of blog items" or "In the search box, I type Docker then I click on the search button and I should receive articles having the Docker tags".

In this article, we'll learn more about Behat and how to use it for a first test.

Imagine you to have a very big docker-compose.yml file with a lot of services and dependencies.

You've too multiple exposed ports.

You'd like to have an at-a-glance view of services, dependencies and open ports. Is this possible? Yes! https://github.com/compose-viz/compose-viz do the magic for us.

Started on 2 November 2023, this article is already the hundredth I've published on this blog. To mark the occasion, I wanted to do something a bit special to honor the blog. What better way than to build a 100% Docker version, i.e. in the form of a downloadable Docker image that you can run with a single command line.

A single command to download the blog and run it on your machine (Linux, Mac or Windows) and have a fully working site; nice isn't it?

And as usual, you'll find all the information you need below so that you can do the same for your own Docusaurus installation.

Now, we'll learn to do the same for your own Docusaurus instance. Ladies and gentlemen, please follow the guide...

For years now, I'm using https://github.com/jakzal/phpqa to run a lot of static analysis tools on my PHP codebase.

The list of available tools is huge; see by yourself: Available tools.

In this blog post, we will see how we can take advantage of all these tools and increase the quality of our scripts.