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DigitalOcean to Fly.io

By Joris Berthelot Published November 5th 2022 Tagged blog, cloud, cloud computing, container, deployment, docker, english, install, migration, news, productivity, self-hosting

Hello folks,

In the pursuit of saving more and more money to run my websites, I recently switched this blog to Fly.io. A pretty neat developer-oriented hosting solution that has a fabulous free tier and bills extra as you go.

It's been out there since 2017 but only found out recently. Thanks to @Chris from Servers For Hackers!

Last time, I was very happy to announce that my hosting costs were around $5-6 a month, while now it's very close to $0.

The solution I had in mind was to convert my Ghost blogs into static websites, using Hugo

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To rewind, or ! (to rewind)

By Joris Berthelot Published November 3rd 2022 Tagged code, development, english, oop, script, protip, php, json, http, php8, guzzle

Lately, I was missioned to integrate a vendor PHP SDK that is transport-agnostic as it implements HTTPlug. Pretty cool.

Everything went well until I found out that the SDK used a response reader method helper which is:

/**
 * @param ResponseInterface $response
 *
 * @return stdClass
 */
private function handleResponse(ResponseInterface $response)
{
    $this->setRateLimitDetails($response);

    $stream = $response->getBody()->getContents();

    return json_decode($stream);
}

First issue: I can't pick the response format, I'm forced to deal with the object deserialization version of the JSON payload. This is okay but not completely since the structure of the JSON may vary if my peers

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Link ID fields in EasyAdmin

By Joris Berthelot Published January 12th 2022 Tagged code, development, english, hack, howto, hint, php, protip, symfony, twig, easyadmin

If you also use EasyAdmin and are exhausted by clicking twice to see an entity ID when on the entity index page, you can use this small tweak to have your index page generate the detail page link on the ID field.

For this, simply override the template crud/field/id.html.twig.  
The original value is currently this:

{# @var ea \EasyCorp\Bundle\EasyAdminBundle\Context\AdminContext #}
{# @var field \EasyCorp\Bundle\EasyAdminBundle\Dto\FieldDto #}
{# @var entity \EasyCorp\Bundle\EasyAdminBundle\Dto\EntityDto #}
{# this template is used to display Doctrine entity primary keys #}
{{ field.formattedValue }}

Instead, you could replace its content with this:

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Cross-region & cross-account AWS resources Terraform planning

By Joris Berthelot Published September 30th 2020 Tagged terraform, amazon aws, aws, aws ecs, deployment, work, trick, sys-admin, server, s3, protip, howto, hint, devops, development, code, english, infrastructure, cloud, cloud computing

Hey, it's been a while, right?

Lately, I'm leading some big changes in our infrastrure since I'm wrapping a Blue/Green deployment into another one. Uh?

Long story short: our product runs on AWS ECS Docker containers, and because we have one sub-domain per app instance, we use Apache wildcard sub-domains. Meaning a single container handles traffic from many clients/instances. We already have a Blue/Green deployment process in place but at the Docker container level, not at the client level. The idea is to entirely duplicate the whole stack (with all its flaws) and a sub-domain pointing to

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CSP Header Hacking for Apache2

By Joris Berthelot Published May 15th 2020 Tagged apache, http, hack, csp, header, content-security-policy, mod_headers, report-to, server, browser, devops, english, howto, protip, sys-admin, workaround

Hello,

I write here to report my latest dirty hack. Story—

While enforcing our HTTP server configuration at work, we are slowly implementing CSP policies and one of them allow Web browsers to report violations to a given endpoint.

At this moment, we are only at the reporting step of the implementation because the first time we attempted to roll this header out, it ended up breaking our staging env.

So, it's recommended to set the Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only header.

This header takes the report-uri directive which allows the browser to push the violation findings to a given endpoint.

For this example:

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Upgrading in a few commands

By Joris Berthelot Published February 16th 2020 Tagged docker, rancheros, digital-ocean, self-hosting, blog, devops, container, deployment, english, migration, news, productivity, protip, reverse-proxy, server, upgrade

It has been over a year now that I migrated my 2 blogs on full Docker-hosting and I wanted it to be as simple as possible for several reasons:

  • Docker is easy to work with and to maintain
  • Everything is Dockerizable
  • I don't want to spend more than an hour every month or so to upgrade my stacks

At work, we previously used CoreOS to deploy a fleet of Dockerized apps but it was hard to maintain but more specifically, CoreOS is designed for distributed apps, which is not the case of this blog.

So, I searched for a simpler

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