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Durbin – monitor Docker Containers remotely

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You’ve installed Docker on your server and running some apps in containers. Awesome! 🙌 🎉
But wait..

  • How do you check which containers are running and which are stopped at this moment?
  • How do you check their logs when needed?
  • Can you stop/start them without logging into the remote server?

This is where you’ll require Durbin! It’s a lightweight PHP script, designed to provide a simple monitoring solution for Docker Containers running on a remote server.

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Laravel Gates – a graphical intro for beginners

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Gates! The first impression it makes is “way to enter somewhere”. But, in reality, the primary responsibility of a gate is to prevent unwanted entry. Another perspective of thinking about gates is – different gates will take you to different places.

Laravel picked this word, “Gate” to name its basic authorization system. What a beautiful similarity between the purpose of an authorization system and the real life gates!

In this post, we are going to:

  • Take a simple application as an example scenario.
  • Identify the usages of authorization in this application.
  • And then, how we can solve it using Laravel Gates.
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