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Docker service fails to start when using devicemapper

This has tripped me up too many times now, I need to make a note for future reference. With Ubuntu 16.04 and devicemapper as the docker storage driver, occasionally after a system boot the docker service won’t startup. The logs (systemd status docker.service) show something like: Dec 05 15:18:23 xxx systemd[1]: Failed to start Docker Application […]

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Make Docker play nicely with UFW

I’ve been spending a lot of time working with Docker over the last year, primarily in Ubuntu environments. So long in fact, that I seem to have forgotten this blog exists 🙂 Something it took me a while to figure out was how to stop Docker from bypassing UFW and exposing mapped ports to the […]

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Installing RVM on Ubuntu 11.04

I’ve been trying to install RVM on Ubuntu 11.04 and what, according to the installation instructions, should have been a fairly straightforward process turned out to be pretty frustrating. I’m no Linux expert, I’m still picking a lot up, but I couldn’t see any reason why, after each install attempt, I got the following error […]

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Menu issue with Aptana Studio 3 on Ubuntu 11.04

In a break from .NET/Visual Studio themed blog posts, a quick pointer for anybody attempting to use Aptana Studio 3 in Ubuntu 11.04 – the main menu is totally hosed because of a clash with the new Unity 3D window manager. There’s a workaround in the Appcelerator docs (Appcelerator being the recent new owners of […]

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