My Journey Containerizing Fullstack Java GUI App

Do you find yourself stuck with an outdated application, due to the absence of viable alternatives or work requirements? Well, you’re not alone. In this blog post, I’ll share my experience dealing with an old Java application that not only require an obsolete version but also demanded a specific environment setup, including a Postgres server and a CUPS server. To liberate my system from these complexity, I embarked on the journey of containerizing the entire stack. Join me as I recount the challenges faced and the valuable lessons learned along the way.

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Raspberry Pi Media Server Series 4 - Setting Up Docker

This is the forth part of my Raspberry Pi Media Server series. If you haven’t read our previous part, here’s where we discussed setting up external drives on Raspberry Pi. In this part, we are going to setting up Docker on Raspberry Pi. Here’s what you will get if you follow through the end of the tutorial: Docker and Docker Compose installed Docker data will be in the external drives Systemd will only start Docker if external drives are mounted Getting Started Before we get our hands on setting up docker on our Raspberry Pi, let’s first do a system update. Continue reading