Docker

Twitter? Garbage. Facebook? Garbage. Do you enjoy having your data harvested and sold? No? Good. Back in the day, there was this thing called Internet Relay Chat. What if I told you… It still exists! Internet socializing without all the Silicon Valley data theft! But due to how the ecosystem works, any time you’re not connected to the server, you don’t receive any messages. This means that you don’t get to see conversations that happen while you’re offline, even if somebody mentions you! ...

So I had a need earlier on today. The need for simple end-user notifications. This need has some backstory, however… The plex container that I run on Docker is basically bulletproof. It does everything super quickly and is easy to restart for updates or to clear out some disk I/O issue with my NAS. The NAS is the only thing that’s really causing it issues because it’s a 5 year old Drobo which is in serious need of an upgrade! So if the Drobo locks up and kills all of the I/O to it, the containers need a reboot. Oddly enough, the Drobo itself doesn’t need a reboot (or even to be remounted) but that’s an investigation for another day. Here, we come to my need: to alert users when the container was ‘down for maintenance.’ ...