Docker is great, but how do you run Linux containers on Windows? In WSL, of course. The Docker Desktop application is certainly an option, but it eats up a lot of RAM thanks to its Electron-based GUI. It also has an LLM chatbot (because of course it does, it’s 2026 after all). Just the Docker Desktop installer takes up 598 MB. What if you want something simpler and with less RAM consumption? WSL 2 makes it really straightforward to set up Docker with some basic Windows integration.

Ten years ago, almost to the day, I wrote a very long blog post titled Deploying Python Web Applications with nginx and uWSGI Emperor. This week, I’ve migrated the Python web applications hosted on my VPS to Docker containers. Here are some reasons why, and all my Docker files to help you do this on your server.

I’ve recently migrated my VPS from Fedora to Ubuntu. Here’s a list of things that might be useful to keep in mind before, during, and after a migration of a server that hosts publicly accessible Web sites and applications, as well as other personal services, and how to get rid of the most annoying parts of Ubuntu.