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Gitlab Gitaly Error

After a power failure of the instance hosting my gitlab server I began getting errors when trying to access existing projects (404) or create new projects (503) from the web interface. I could see the list of projects but if I clicked on the link to any of them I would get a 404 errors. ...

Cisco SDWAN Self Hosted Lab Part 1

One of the posts I get contacted about the most is this one on how the setup a self hosted Viptela control plane. Since Cisco acquired Viptela the process has changed and is now (IMO) a bit simpler. With the release of SDWAN software version 19.1.0 it is now possible to use virtual...

LDAP Search Active Directory

I recently had to migrate authentication for a service from FIPA to Active Directory. It was a bit of fluffing around because the directory structure in FIPA did not exactly align with the directory structure in AD. In this post I will demonstrate how to use the ldapsearch command to search...

Dell R610 Ubuntu 1804 Install Error

When attempting to install the Ubuntu 1804 server spin on a Dell R610 I use for labs I encountered an error. The image that is available from the main downloads page links to a live installer. When I tried to install from this image, the installer would crash and restart when trying to...

Self Hosted Vagrant Cloud

It is possible to host your own Vagrant "cloud" on premises. You might want to do this to align with your companies security policy and or to host your custom Vagrant boxes. There are a number of methods to serve your Vagrant boxes, in this post I will show you how to build a web server to...

Vagrant Libvirt Install CentOS 7

This post will cover the process of installing Vagrant with the libvirt provider on CentOS 7. For reference the following software will be used in this post. CentOS - 7 Vagrant - 2.2.4 Vagrant-libvirt - 0.0.45 System Prep Before we begin, lets ensure the host is updated. cmd sudo yum...
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