From NGINX to Traefik (with Docker on DigitalOcean)

This post will show how to configure NGINX as a reverse proxy with SSL support, then how (and why) I have migrated to Traefik.

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The article has four sections:

• Introduction of the project where the migration took place
• Deployment with NGINX and Certbot
• Moving to Traefik and its benefits
• Configuring Traefik with a wildcard SSL certificate

Intro

NGINX is an extremely popular Web Server: it is fast, free and simple to start with. It was my immediate choice when developing one of my personal projects:

CryptoLastMinute provides a detailed view of the price changes in the last 60 minutes for 500+ cryptocurrencies. It displays the prices in multiple currencies (EUR, USD, Yuan, Ruble) and allows saving your favourite coins.

The architecture comprises a (React) website and 2 (Python) services, Docker containers and a remote database storage.

Running with NGINX

The initial needs at the outset of the project were: manage the incoming HTTP traffic, forward requests to the backend services and ensuring HTTPS.

I opted for NGINX for various reasons: I had already some experience with it and the setup (with Docker) was pretty simple.

With this approach I had to consider the following:

• provide the
• define the
• use Certbot to create and renew the SSL certificate

The includes the configuration of the components involved in the runtime of the website: NGINX and the services.

#traefik #docker

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ScaleGrid DigitalOcean Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 9, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for their MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™ solutions on DigitalOcean. This launch is in addition to their current DigitalOcean offering for MongoDB® database, the only DBaaS to support this database on DigitalOcean.

MySQL and PostgreSQL are the top two open source relational databases in the world, and Redis is the top key-value database. These databases are a natural fit for the developer market that has gravitated towards DigitalOcean since its launch just nine years ago in 2011. The open source model is not only popular with the developer market, but also enterprise companies looking to modernize their infrastructure and reduce spend.  DigitalOcean instance costs are also over 28% less expensive than AWS, and over 26% less than Azure, providing significant savings for companies who are struggling in this global climate.

ScaleGrid’s MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™ solutions on DigitalOcean are competitively priced starting at just $15/GB, the same as DigitalOcean’s Managed Database solution, but offer on average 30% more storage for the same price. Additionally, ScaleGrid offers several competitive advantages such as full superuser access, custom master-slave configurations, and advanced slow query analysis and monitoring capabilities through their sophisticated platform. To compare more features, check out their ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean MySQL, ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean PostgreSQL and ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Redis™ pages.

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Best MySQL DigitalOcean Performance – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

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MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. DigitalOcean is quickly building its reputation as the developers cloud by providing an affordable, flexible and easy to use cloud platform for developers to work with. MySQL on DigitalOcean is a natural fit, but what’s the best way to deploy your cloud database? In this post, we are going to compare the top two providers, DigitalOcean Managed Databases for MySQL vs. ScaleGrid MySQL hosting on DigitalOcean.

At a glance – TLDR
ScaleGrid Blog - At a glance overview - 1st pointCompare Throughput
ScaleGrid averages almost 40% higher throughput over DigitalOcean for MySQL, with up to 46% higher throughput in write-intensive workloads. Read now

ScaleGrid Blog - At a glance overview - 2nd pointCompare Latency
On average, ScaleGrid achieves almost 30% lower latency over DigitalOcean for the same deployment configurations. Read now

ScaleGrid Blog - At a glance overview - 3rd pointCompare Pricing
ScaleGrid provides 30% more storage on average vs. DigitalOcean for MySQL at the same affordable price. Read now

MySQL DigitalOcean Performance Benchmark
In this benchmark, we compare equivalent plan sizes between ScaleGrid MySQL on DigitalOcean and DigitalOcean Managed Databases for MySQL. We are going to use a common, popular plan size using the below configurations for this performance benchmark:

Comparison Overview
ScaleGridDigitalOceanInstance TypeMedium: 4 vCPUsMedium: 4 vCPUsMySQL Version8.0.208.0.20RAM8GB8GBSSD140GB115GBDeployment TypeStandaloneStandaloneRegionSF03SF03SupportIncludedBusiness-level support included with account sizes over $500/monthMonthly Price$120$120

As you can see above, ScaleGrid and DigitalOcean offer the same plan configurations across this plan size, apart from SSD where ScaleGrid provides over 20% more storage for the same price.

To ensure the most accurate results in our performance tests, we run the benchmark four times for each comparison to find the average performance across throughput and latency over read-intensive workloads, balanced workloads, and write-intensive workloads.

Throughput
In this benchmark, we measure MySQL throughput in terms of queries per second (QPS) to measure our query efficiency. To quickly summarize the results, we display read-intensive, write-intensive and balanced workload averages below for 150 threads for ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean MySQL:

ScaleGrid MySQL vs DigitalOcean Managed Databases - Throughput Performance Graph

For the common 150 thread comparison, ScaleGrid averages almost 40% higher throughput over DigitalOcean for MySQL, with up to 46% higher throughput in write-intensive workloads.

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Docker Explained: Docker Architecture | Docker Registries

Following the second video about Docker basics, in this video, I explain Docker architecture and explain the different building blocks of the docker engine; docker client, API, Docker Daemon. I also explain what a docker registry is and I finish the video with a demo explaining and illustrating how to use Docker hub

In this video lesson you will learn:

• What is Docker Host
• What is Docker Engine
• Learn about Docker Architecture
• Learn about Docker client and Docker Daemon
• Docker Hub and Registries
• Simple demo to understand using images from registries

#docker #docker hub #docker host #docker engine #docker architecture #api

From NGINX to Traefik (with Docker on DigitalOcean)

This post will show how to configure NGINX as a reverse proxy with SSL support, then how (and why) I have migrated to Traefik.

Image by author

The article has four sections:

• Introduction of the project where the migration took place
• Deployment with NGINX and Certbot
• Moving to Traefik and its benefits
• Configuring Traefik with a wildcard SSL certificate

Intro

NGINX is an extremely popular Web Server: it is fast, free and simple to start with. It was my immediate choice when developing one of my personal projects:

CryptoLastMinute provides a detailed view of the price changes in the last 60 minutes for 500+ cryptocurrencies. It displays the prices in multiple currencies (EUR, USD, Yuan, Ruble) and allows saving your favourite coins.

The architecture comprises a (React) website and 2 (Python) services, Docker containers and a remote database storage.

Running with NGINX

The initial needs at the outset of the project were: manage the incoming HTTP traffic, forward requests to the backend services and ensuring HTTPS.

I opted for NGINX for various reasons: I had already some experience with it and the setup (with Docker) was pretty simple.

With this approach I had to consider the following:

• provide the
• define the
• use Certbot to create and renew the SSL certificate

The includes the configuration of the components involved in the runtime of the website: NGINX and the services.

#traefik #docker

NGINX Announces Eight Solutions that Let Developers Run Safely with Scissors

Technology is hard. As technologists, I think we like it that way. It’s built‑in job security, right? Well, unfortunately, the modern application world has become unproductively hard. We need to make it easier.

That’s why I like describing the current developer paradox as the need to run safely with scissors.

NGINX Balances Developer Choice with Infrastructure Guardrails

Running with scissors is a simple metaphor for what is the admittedly difficult ask we make of software engineers. Developers need to run. Time to market and feature velocity are critical to the success of digital businesses. As a result, we don’t want to encumber developers with processes or technology choices that slow them down. Instead we empower them to pick tools and stacks that let them deliver code to customers as quickly as possible.

But there’s a catch. In the world of fast releases, multiple daily (or hourly or minutely!) changes, and fail‑fast development, we risk introducing application downtime into digital experiences – that risk is the metaphorical scissors that make it dangerous to run fast. On some level we know it’s wrong to make developers run with scissors. But the speed upside trumps the downtime downside.

That frames the dilemma of our era: we need our developers to run with scissors, but we don’t want anybody to get hurt. Is there a solution?

At NGINX, the answer is “yes”. I’m excited to announce eight new or significantly enhanced solutions built to unleash developer speed without sacrificing the governance, visibility, and control infrastructure teams require.

Load Balancing and Security DNS Solutions Empower Self‑Service

As my colleague, Gus Robertson, eloquently points out in his recent blog The Essence of Sprint Is Speed, self‑service is an important part of developer empowerment. He talks about developers as the engines of digital transformation. And if they’re not presented with easy-to-use, capable tools, they take matters into their own hands. The result is shadow IT and significant infrastructure risk.

Self‑service turns this on its head. It provides infrastructure teams with a way to release the application delivery and security technologies that developers need for A/B, canary, blue‑green, and circuit‑breaker patterns. But it does so within the guardrails that ensure the consistency, reliability, and security that ensure your apps remain running once in production.

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