Free certificates went GA this month. Automating issuance and renewal, the rate limits that catch staging first, and the monitoring that has to outlive the automation.
Docker 1.12 added HEALTHCHECK, which means the image itself can say what “working” means. Before this, every orchestrator had to be told separately, and each one had its…
Pointing monit at a process that keeps dying makes the symptom disappear, and that is precisely the risk: the service comes back within thirty seconds, the graph looks…