• Apr 8, 2019

  • Bought a whole packer. Prime. ~9lbs untrimmed. $3.50/lb (snow crab was almost $10/lb!). Trimmed and brined it. Will smoke brisket tomorrow. Separated the point and the flat.
  • My pitmasterIQ arrived as well! Pretty easy setup. Ran a power cable out of the window, connected the fan to the bottom vent, and snaked the RTD (with alligator clip!) to the top grate. Will use it tomorrow with the brisket.
  • Shaved head for the first time in (years?)! Easy, free, clean. Better for motorcycle helmet, gym, summer.
  • Watched GoT recaps for seasons 1-7.
  • `sudo -i` is used to enter a root shell. This is how you do certain things as root, like cd. Since you can’t `sudo cd <>` you have to change to root (you could also do this with su) then cd there in the root shell.
  • Docker volumes.
  • Docker mounts are stored on the host in /var/lib/docker/volumes by default, if you don’t specify a host location. This is useful if you don’t need host files to be mirrored to the container, you just want the data in the container to persist when the container is destroyed. This is common for databases.
  • If you specify a hostLocation:containerLocation volume, then it’s basically a bidirectional mount point. This is useful if you want changes on the host to sync into changes on the container, and vice versa. This is common for source (git repos).
  • You can share volumes across containers, btw, because they’re all persisted on the host.
  • You can do `docker volume ls` just like images or containers. You can `docker inspect <volume_name>` as well.
  • If volumes were created by docker-compose, you should delete them with docker-compose as well: docker-compose down –volumes (this will delete your data!)
  • You only need to pass `–build` to `docker-compose up -d` if….. you want to rebuild the images before starting the containers! If you don’t, just run UP. It will be way faster.
  • Supercontest.
  • Test. Changed my picks. docker-compose down, then back up. The picks were gone, as expected, because I didn’t set up the volume for them yet. Added the volume, then reperformed the test. They persisted.
  • Got all volumes working as expected.
  • The 3 main containers and docker-compose should be in a good place now. Moving on to the letsencrypt container.
  • NCAA national championship.
  • Last dodgeball game of the season. Playoffs begin next week.