Alex Gallacher

Hi, I'm Alex Gallacher, I'm a Senior Manager at Deloitte Australia. I'm an Okta qualified Consultant and Scrum Master currently based out of Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne, Australia 14 posts
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Cloudflare
How to configure Cloudflare Tunnels for a secure Ghost blog.
Use Cloudflared Tunnels and Cloudflare Teams to protect a self hosted Ghost Blog or any application on the web running on your own server from bad bots on the internet.

Alex Gallacher

18 Jan 2022
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11 min read

Cloudflare
Using Cloudflare Tunnels to protect your Ghost blog
Learn how to use Cloudflare tunnels to protect a Ghost blog and server from direct web attacks using Cloudflare's extensive network and protection mechanisms

Alex Gallacher

20 Nov 2021
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3 min read

UpCloud vs Vultr High Frequency VPS Comparison September 2021
A comparison between Vultr's Intel powered High Frequency NVME and UpCloud's AMD EPYC MaxIops cloud instances in September 2021

Alex Gallacher

22 Sep 2021
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8 min read

Docker Series
How to setup Comments using Commento on Docker Compose
Learn how to setup commento in Docker compose to self host comments for your website or blog on your own VPS to ensure people can directly interact with you

Alex Gallacher

21 Aug 2021
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6 min read

Docker Series
How to Prune Docker Images Automatically with a Daily Cron job
Learn how to automatically prune unused Docker images, networks and volumes on a daily basis with a Cron job to ensure you never run out of diskspace on your VPS

Alex Gallacher

14 Mar 2021
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3 min read

Docker Series
Auto update Docker Containers by setting up Watchtower
Learn how to automatically update all of your running Docker containers by setting up Watchtower with Docker Compose on Docker.

Alex Gallacher

13 Mar 2021
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4 min read

Docker Series
How to Setup NGINX Alpine for Lightweight Static Files on Docker
Learn how to setup a lightweight NGINX-Alpine docker container to serve static files and static websites using your own domain name on Docker Compose

Alex Gallacher

31 Jan 2021
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4 min read

Docker Series
How To Setup A Ghost blog Using MariaDB with NGINX SSL on Docker
Learn how to setup your own Ghost blog with Maria Database on Docker Compose using NGINX and lets Encrypt for Traffic forwarding and Domain Certificate generation

Alex Gallacher

17 May 2020
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5 min read

Docker Series
How to setup NGINX reverse proxy with automatic Lets Encrypt SSL Certificate Generation on Docker for a Ghost blog
Learn how to setup a NGINX Reverse Proxy with automatic Letsencrypt Certificate Generation for your own Ghost blog using your own domain name using Docker Compose

Alex Gallacher

17 May 2020
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6 min read

 Docker Series
How To Setup Docker and Docker Compose for Ghost Blog
Work out how to select a relatively inexpensive VPS to host your own blog like mine by learning how to install and leverage Docker and Docker Compose

Alex Gallacher

17 May 2020
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3 min read

Docker Series
How To Create Your Own Self Hosted Ghost Blog with Docker
Host your own blog in 2021 like me with Docker and Docker Compose using Ghost, NGINX and Letsencrypt. find out about day 2 functionality such as comments, Cloudflare and Automatic updates

Alex Gallacher

17 May 2020
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1 min read

Docker Series
How to Deploy Riskquant on Docker to Prioritise Business Risk
How to setup and deploy Riskquant on Docker using a Vultr VPS

Alex Gallacher

20 Apr 2020
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3 min read

Use Riskquant to Quantify & Prioritise Cyber Risk
Quantifying and prioritising cyber risk is a difficult and expensive task that enterprises get wrong more often than right. What alternatives methods are there?

Alex Gallacher

20 Apr 2020
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6 min read

Here's My 5 Key Takeaways From #Oktane19 In San Francisco for 2019
What a week and what an experience in San Francisco for their yearly #Oktane conference which was jam packed with events over 3 days. A special thanks to @Deloitte for sending me over with the wider identity team from Melbourne and Sydney and @Okta. Here's my take on #Oktane19 and key points

Alex Gallacher

15 Apr 2019
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8 min read