By default, the Docker daemon listens for connections on a Unix socket to accept requests from local clients.

We are going to configure Docker to accept requests from remote clients by configuring it to listen on an IP address/port, in addition to the Unix socket.

There is a lot of conflicting, and incorrect …

I have a few virtual machine deployed on in my home lab, and my general OS of choice is Ubuntu Mate.

Not as barebones basic as XFCE4, and not as resource-intensive as Gnome3 or KDE.

One of the first things I do after rolling out a virtual machine is to disable the screensaver and lock screen on any OS.

On Ubuntu Mate, …

Most computer new computer hardware that will fail quickly, will fail within the first month of usage, if not sooner.

Given that, it's recommended to do a burn-in test for any new computer hardware, including hard drives.

I've been using a disk burn-in test to stress test hard drives as I've been replacing them in my …

Sooner or later, every system will have a drive failure.

ZFS was designed with this in mind.

I noticed in my /var/log/kern.log file error messages about one of the drives in my ZFS pool.

Dec  8 07:11:17 nas kernel: [738110.398391] ata8.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x80000004 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Dec  8 07:11:17 nas …

Using minikube is a great way to learn Kubernetes, without all of the overhead/complexity of installing a full fledged Kubernetes deployment.

In a nutshell, minikube is local Kubernetes.

As Kubernetes/minikube are container orchestration tools, you need something to run the 'pods'.

For minikube, this can be Docker, …

Installing Docker on Ubuntu 20.04

Update September 2025:

There is now a script provided by Docker.com to simplify the installation of Docker.

As with any script you download from the Internet, make sure you are aware of what the scipt does before running the script!

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh …