Hugo not detecting changed pages on Mac
I’ve used Hugo for my blog for several years now, and it’s great. One of the things I love about it is the fast build time coupled with …
Running as root on Docker images that don’t use root
tl;dr: specify the --user root argument: docker exec --interactive \ --tty \ --user root \ --workdir / \ container-name bash
Running a self-managed Kafka Connect worker for Confluent Cloud
Confluent Cloud is not only a fully-managed Apache Kafka service, but also provides important additional pieces for building applications and …
IBM MQ on Docker - Channel was blocked
Running IBM MQ in a Docker container and the client connecting to it was throwing repeated Channel was blocked errors.
How to install connector plugins in Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect (which is part of Apache Kafka) supports pluggable connectors, enabling you to stream data between Kafka and numerous types of system, …
Using tcpdump With Docker
I was doing some troubleshooting between two services recently and wanting to poke around to see what was happening in the REST calls between them. …
Running Dockerised Kafka Connect worker on GCP
I talk and write about Kafka and Confluent Platform a lot, and more and more of the demos that I’m building are around Confluent Cloud. This means …
What to Do When Docker on the Mac Runs Out of Space
I use Docker and Docker Compose a lot. Like, every day. It’s a fantastic way to build repeatable demos and examples, that can be torn down and spun …
Pull new version of multiple Docker images
Tiny little snippet this one. Given a list of images: $ docker images|grep confluent confluentinc/cp-enterprise-kafka 5.0.0 d0c5528d7f99 3 months ago …
Docker Tips and Tricks with Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and Kafka
A few years ago a colleague of mine told me about this thing called Docker, and I must admit I dismissed it as a fad…how wrong was I. Docker, and …
ERROR: Invalid interpolation format for “command” option in service…
Doing some funky Docker Compose stuff, including:
Accessing Kafka Docker containers’ JMX from host
See also docs. To help future Googlers… with the Confluent docker images for Kafka, KSQL, Kafka Connect, etc, if you want to access JMX metrics from …
Kafka Listeners - Explained
(This was cross-posted on the Confluent.io blog) This question comes up on StackOverflow and such places a lot, so here’s something to try and …
Running a Docker Container on Proxmox for BitTorrent Sync
(Previously, previously, previously) Since Proxmox 4 has a recent Linux kernel and mainline one at that, it means that Docker can be run on it. …
A New Arrival
After a long and painful delivery, I’m delighted to announce the arrival of a new addition to my household … : This custom-build from …