[AccessD] In training

[Jim Lawrence]

I have been away for the last few weeks being trained (and paid) for assisting in installing improvements to a fairly large network. I learned about such applications as Varnish, Proxygen and learned how to configure Cisco switches and routers to do load balancing. Also had an introduction to Hadoop and Docker Containers.

It was great but it consumed all my time...researching in the evenings, testing and installing during the days. The beauty is, I actually got paid. Don't tell anyone, but I would have done it for nothing or may have actually paid for the training. It does help to have in-laws who have connections. ;-)

This all re-enforces why I love the world of computers so much.

I now am in the process of updating the families' websites. We will now be using a git client and a OS git server. (performs a similar task to the old subversion program but much more sophisticated). The client and server are connected via a 256 byte SSH key...everything is encrypted and there is no reason for multi-level passwords as the two key system, public/private keys works much better as it requires no usernames, passwords or manual entry. All the web sites are encaptulated in Containers (like vitual computers but much smaller and faster) and each runs independantly on an IngenX webserver (like Apache or IIS but much faster). The Containers are capable of federating between each other if necessary. For now it is a manual process to take the Git Server content, of each website and build each Container, from each site, (still having issues with compiling a new Wordpress site but should have that figured out) but soon I hope to have an automated script process, to do all the grunt work.

Right now the only way to run Microsoft applications within a Container, is by installing the WINE compatibility layer, but I understand Microsoft hopes to have compatibilty with the Docker Containers, soon. They just have to figure out a method to protect each application from duplication...thousands of time within a few minutes, if desired. ;-)
   
Jim  

PS Went to see "La La Land", today. It was beautifully done and the two lead actors, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are true triple threats...absolutely brilliantly directed and performed.