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prydonius | 10 years ago | on: Bitnami Stacksmith – Create custom container images in minutes

Hi, I'm an engineer on the Bitnami team working on Stacksmith. If you’re already comfortable maintaining your image stack, keep writing Dockerfiles manually.

We don't think that the average Python developer should have to know apt, yum, apk, the packaging multi-verse, and bash just to get a secure environment where ‘pip install’ works reliably.

We created Stacksmith to help application developers keep their container images up-to-date with ease, without having to worry about the underlying stack too much, whilst still giving completely visibility into what's inside. This opens up the benefits of containers to a much wider audience of developers over time.

prydonius | 10 years ago | on: DigitalOcean Teams Up with Bitnami, Install Over 100 Web Apps with a Few Clicks

You are right it is difficult to keep self-managed installations secure vs. just using a SaaS provider, especially when some of the users only have basic admin skills. Having said that, we do our best to have secure settings by default, respond promptly to security issues (typically we release new images within hours of a new version being announced) and in particular in the case of WordPress we pre-configure everything out so automatic updates are enabled out of the box (which the user can also manage from the admin panel without touching the command line).

prydonius | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Karn – Manage multiple Git identities

I built karn to avoid situations where I've forgotten to update the config after cloning a new repository. With karn, any repository under `~/Work`, for example, will automatically be configured to use the correct identity. Also, since it's all in one configuration file, that makes it really easy to maintain and keep it in sync with multiple machines.

prydonius | 11 years ago | on: Stop using tail -f (mostly)

I was interested in the significance of the plus for this flag. If anyone else was curious: from the manual, the + flag is for initial commands to less, so this is equivalent to running less and typing F.
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