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Introducing Modcache and Modmanager
If you're the kind of smart arse who already knows how our Docker mods work under the hood, you can skip the next section, but if not then I'm afraid it's necessary reading to…

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Why Can't You Just Implement <Thing I Want>?
It's a common refrain: "Why can't you just implement this feature that would make my life easier? It's not even that hard, it's just this environment variable or this bit of init…

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Image Vulnerability Scanning and You
Tools that scan Docker containers for vulnerabilities have been around for a while; Trivy, Snyk, Grype, Clair, etc. all give you the option of throwing an image at them and in…

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That long overdue update post...
It's been a long time since we've done a community update with what's going on within the LSIO world, so we thought what better time to do one than when we're releasing a new…

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Updating and Backing Up Docker Containers With Version Control
Docker compose is a great tool to manage docker containers and makes it easy to update containers using the latest tags of images. However, the simple pull and up -d operation…

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Self hosting Bitwarden Password Manager
Bitwarden is an awesome open source password manager that I've been using for a while. However I've never been entirely comfortable with storing my password database on someone…

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The dangers of pulling :latest
On a wonderful sunny Sunday morning, I spent a good few hours sweating over my server in the hopes of restoring a partially corrupted and misconfigured database. Why? Because I…

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How To: Setup Containers on QNAP
The aim of this guide will be to show new users of our containers how to get started on the QNAP platform. I will cover how to go about setting up the user and permissions as well…

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Installing Nextcloud on Unraid
This seems to generate a lot of questions and queries so thought I’d do a quick walkthrough. First of all you need to install MariaDB, now one of the stipulations of Nextcloud is…

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How to setup Docker on Linux using Plex as an example
I’ll leave a lot of the theory out and just focus on trying to get you up and running as quick as possible providing example commands. I found the biggest hurdle when learning…