Securing Applications With Authentik

Authentik is an open-source Identity Provider that emphasizes flexibility and versatility. It can be seamlessly integrated into existing environments to support new protocols. Authentik is also a great solution for implementing sign-up, recovery, and other similar features in your application, saving you the hassle of dealing with them. We will be utilizing this to secure our Docker containers and to manage who is able capable of accessing them. Prerequisites Docker and Docker-Compose....

May 12, 2024 · 5 min · 1006 words · Nicholas Tabb

Monitoring Containers with Uptime Kuma

Uptime Kuma is a monitoring tool that allows you to easily track the status of your Docker containers. It provides a clean and intuitive interface for monitoring the uptime and response time of your services. Uptime Kuma is a great tool for keeping an eye on your containers and ensuring that your services are running smoothly. In addition to monitoring the status of containers, we can also have it notify us when a container goes down....

May 18, 2024 · 4 min · 715 words · Nicholas Tabb

Keeping Containers Updated

It is important that we keep our containers updated to ensure that we have the latest security patches and features. In this tutorial, I will show you two methods to keep your containers updated. Method 1: Using Watchtower Watchtower is a container that automatically updates your Docker containers. It is a great tool for keeping your containers up to date without having to manually update them. The use of Watchtower is somewhat controversial in the Docker community because it can cause issues with certain containers that may have breaking changes....

July 26, 2024 · 4 min · 722 words · Nicholas Tabb