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Combining a static website with a web application I'd often wondered how I could serve my static html blog alongside some web applications. Did the simplicity and ease of using Hugo to generate nicely rendered mobile friendly blog posts somehow restrict me if I wanted to create some dynamic web applications? The solution turns out to be relatively simply when you know how. But … figuring out how, leads you down a rabbit hole of new things to understand and configure:-...

This post describes how I wrote a python based tool to allow me to obtain reliable stock fundamental data and ratios in an automated way. I outline a few approaches I tried and then briefly describe the tool quandl_fund_xlsx and it’s use. The linked github page contains a README with instructions for installing and using the tool, I’ll not be covering that here but providing a bit of a back-story regarding the rationale for creating the tool....

I’m doing this purely as an experiment to gain experience with using the Google container service and Google compute services. The steps required are loosely: Establish a google compute account. Install the google SDK and gcloud. Create a default gcloud configuration. Create a minimum sized cluster to allow us to run Kubernetes and manage our blog in a container. Upload my blog container to the Google Container Registry. Create a “deployment” to run the container....

In the earlier post we got our blog deployed inside of a docker container, said container running nginx to serve our blog. In this article I’ll look at how we can “deploy” this to The Cloud!. I’ve previously experimented with creating VMs and setting up a cool docker/ dev environment on them, perhaps I’ll blog on this at some time, and this was what I initially thought I’d use as an environment to host a docker blog container....

This post notes some of the steps taken to create a static site based blog and containerising it. Future posts will deal with numerous ways we can “deploy” it; using docker, docker-machine and perhaps even CoreOS. The blog is just an excuse to have something to ‘containerize’, ’tis not complex enough to warrant microservices, and multiple containers but can be a platform for me to discuss my experiences with these....