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A Very Woolful Ghost

A Very Woolful Ghost

It's container month at Reclaim Edtech, so I've been pushing myself to revisit todo list items that might give me a reason to play with containers, and lo and behold I found another Ghost. This time it was a project my special lady friend has been working on related to

Migrating Ghost from Community Image to Docker Engine Installer on Reclaim Cloud

Migrating Ghost from Community Image to Docker Engine Installer on Reclaim Cloud

When sending out the April installment of Reclaim Roundup we ran into a glitch wherein the instance was faltering sending an email to all subscribers once that number topped 500. I assumed it was an issue with our third party email tool Mailgun at first, but after investigating it was

Adding Ghost Config Variables in Reclaim Cloud

Adding Ghost Config Variables in Reclaim Cloud

Tim Clarke is helping a faculty member get Ghost up and running on Reclaim Cloud, and has used Reclaim's EdTech Discord channel to ask for clarification around Mailgun settings and environmental variables. Both of which I did not document fully in my Ghost series earlier this year. Tsk, tsk, Jimmy!

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Upgrading Peertube and Running the Livechat Plugin

A quick video guide for upgrading Peertube running in Docker Engine on Reclaim Cloud Peertube4.0 was recently released, and I was excited to see what's new and improved in what is becoming one of my favorite pieces of open source software. Feeling emboldened by some recent experimenting in Reclaim

Professional Development in the Cloud

Professional Development in the Cloud

I am just coming off a couple of hours of watching Stephen Downes work his way through some of my Ghost tutorials. It's not only quite useful for me to watch someone make heads or tails of my tutorials, but I also find it oddly compelling viewing. I wanna know

Configuring Email for a Ghost Docker Container on Reclaim Cloud

Configuring Email for a Ghost Docker Container on Reclaim Cloud

When I first installed Ghost many a year ago the most difficult element of setting it up was getting mail working. I used Mailgun for the first time during that process, and since then API-driven mail services have become pretty standard. The way mail works in Ghost now, as I

Setting Environmental Variables for a Ghost Docker Container in Reclaim Cloud

Setting Environmental Variables for a Ghost Docker Container in Reclaim Cloud

If the title hasn't scared you away, then welcome! Over the weekend I was struggling to get a mapped URL for a Ghost container on Reclaim Cloud resolving consistently to the main URL. While the home page worked, several subpages were defaulting to localhost:2386, which is hardcoded in the

Updating a Ghost Docker Container in Reclaim Cloud

Updating a Ghost Docker Container in Reclaim Cloud

One of the things I wanted to figure out after installing Ghost as a Docker Container on Reclaim Cloud was how to update it to subsequent versions. Below is a very short video on the process as well as the commands to do this via SSH: Keep in mind, changing

Spinning Up a Ghost Docker Container in Reclaim Cloud

Spinning Up a Ghost Docker Container in Reclaim Cloud

Reclaim Hosting is planning on using Ghost to power our monthly newsletters starting this month, so Pilot has been exploring installing it on Reclaim Cloud using the Marketplace app. Turns out it was out-of-date and not so easy to update, so we explored getting Ghost Docker image running in the

The Ghost of bava

The Ghost of bava

This is kind of a record keeping post, it turns out when you've been blogging for nearly 15 years posts can be useful to remind you of what you did years earlier that you presently have no recollection of. It's my small battle against the ever-creeping memory loss that follows

Digital Ocean's One-Click Apps vs. Cloudron

Digital Ocean's One-Click Apps vs. Cloudron

Digital Ocean has been en fuego as of late. They announced a whole bunch of new droplet plans, and the price-point for all of them has gone down. This is very good news for Reclaim Hosting because it gives us some breathing room with our infrastructure costs allowing us to

Look a(nother) Ghost

Look a(nother) Ghost

Since May of 2014 I have been playing on and off with the blogging platform Ghost. It has been an on again off again affair, and I have never left WordPress for it, but rather use it as a test bed for exploring how Reclaim might host applications outside the

Ghost in a Shell

Ghost in a Shell

I woke up this morning with an excited text from Tim "the wonderful wizard of Reclaim" Owens pointing me to some work he did on our Cloudron test instance. Short version: it is awesome. Now for the slightly longer version. First off, for more background on Cloudron and why we

Mail for Ghost

I just finished in 15 minutes something I had been putting off for two years: setting up email for my Ghost blog. Granted I haven't been using this space all that much, but still it haunted me. Anyway, it was easy, turns out I messed up the verification settings from

Give Up the AWS Ghost

Give Up the AWS Ghost

Building on my last post about moving ds106.club off Amazon Web Services (AWS), I moved another EC2 instance I setup back in 2014 to run the blogging platform Ghost. Like ds106.club, I had not been able to access the server for a while, and the hassle of replacing

Terminal Ghost

My exploration of the blogging platform Ghost continues, and this is yet another post in that vein. It might be worth mentioning, however, that my experimentation with Ghost is in service of trying to figure out a cloud-based infrastructure servce like Amazon's EC2. Having something concrete to work with, such

Welcoming Summer's Ghost

Welcoming Summer's Ghost

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost. --Henry Rollins But until then, Henry, let's not give up the Ghost just yet :) All the punz!!! In a previous post a talked about using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to

Ghost from the Machine

Ghost from the Machine

My last post explored the possibilities a platform like Amazon Web Services (AWS) affords a group like the one I've worked at for almost nine years. That post was a bit vague about specifics, so I'm going to narrate the particulars of getting an instance of the blogging application Ghost

Next Generation Sandbox

Next Generation Sandbox

I sat through a webinar this afternoon---it's actually yesterday now---about Amazon Web Services (AWS) for education. Tim Owens and Ryan Brazell were there as well, but it seemed like this stuff was old hat to them. On the other hand, I was blown away. I've been following the conversations around