LHB Linux Digest #24.13: Flatpak, System Calls, Docker Compose Tips and More

Hey tiatira,

Although, Flatpaks are typically for desktop Linux and we focus more on the server side of Linux, we create a section on using the Flatpak commands. It's good to know about the newer packaging formats, after all.

Introduction to Flatpak

The universal packaging system from Fedora is popular among developers and desktop Linux users.

Linux Handbook •Satoshi Nakamoto

We are working on a Kubernetes course next. It will be probably out by the end of September or mid-October.

💭 What else do you get in this edition of LHB Linux Digest:

• Syscalls
• Docker Compose
• Docker Container Monitoring
• Tools and memes for Linux lovers

✨ Get Trained with a Mentor

In the spirit of Olympics, Linux Foundation is offering discount on its instructor-led training. Get trained with a mentor.

📖 Linux Tips and Tutorials

Here are a few Linux learning

• System calls in Linux
• Beginner tip: What do <, << and <<< mean in Linux?

And then let's focus on Docker Compose.

Understand it first, Docker file and compose are different things.

A Quick Guide to Using Docker Compose

Docker Compose is a Docker-native tool that makes multi-container application management a breeze.

Linux Handbook •Hunter Wittenborn

Learn the difference between Docker Compose Up and Start.

And then explore various methods that you can use to keep your Docker Compose images fresh and current!

📚 DevOps Tutorials

Infrastructure monitoring is an essential activity in the DevOps world. This article will guide you on how to deploy the Dockprom Stack for monitoring Docker containers and host and present them with Grafana dashboard.

Monitoring Docker Containers With Grafana Using Dockprom

Learn how to deploy the Dockprom Stack for monitoring Docker containers and host and present them with Grafana dashboard.

Linux Handbook •Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay

👩‍💻Self hosting corner

A new web analytics tool that can be self hosted.

Introduction – Medama Analytics

Medama Analytics

💡Quick Terminal tip

You can print all the autocompletion to the terminal by pressing the ESC+* after pressing some initial characters.

📰 Linux news that matters

• Google introduced Oscar, an experimental open-source contributor agent architecture.
• Linux was also affected by Crowdstrike weeks before the recent catastrophic event.
• DARPA's new suggestion is to turn old C code automatically into Rust, with Project TRACTOR.
• New SLUBStick cross-cache attack, that impacts Linux kernel.

🛠️ Nifty tool

Semantic Search or w2vgrep is a command-line tool that performs semantic searches on text input using word embeddings. It can match relative meaning words in a given text. More on the project’s GitHub page.

GitHub – arunsupe/semantic-grep: grep for words with similar meaning to the query

grep for words with similar meaning to the query. Contribute to arunsupe/semantic-grep development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub •arunsupe

😂 Geek humor

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