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...
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...
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...
I am currently using a Windows 10 laptop as my main OS. IMHO Microsoft has
really turned it around as a company in recent years and I no longer think of
them as M$ Virus Corp!! I still live in a terminal session for a lot of my day
and I am not ready give up on Bash just yet. The ability to...
I recently purchased the Vortex Race3 mechanical keyboard. I really
love this keyboard, it has Cherry MX brown switches with 4 layers of
arbitrary key programming. I like this board because its almost as
compact as a 60% keyboard but has almost the same number of keys as
a ten key less...
StackStorm has the ability to run Ansible playbooks. In this
post I will install and configure the Ansible pack and create
a workflow to test out the functionality.
Lab Environment
I have StackStorm installed on a Centos7 host. The following
software versions will be utilised as part of...
Chef is an infrastructure automation tool similar to Puppet and Salt.
In this post I will setup a Chef infrastructure consisting of a Chef
server, node and workstation to manage the infrastructure.
In April 2019 Chef
announced
that they are open sourcing all of their
products under the...
Packer is another fantastic tool
in the infrastructure as code tool belt from Hashicorp. Packer allows
you to build base or golden images for Hypervisors such as KVM,
Virtualbox and VMware based on configuration files. But that is not all,
it can even build images for cloud providers such...
One of my 2019 goals was to migrate codingpackets.com
from the python web framework Django to the ruby
web framework Rails. Well it's done and this is
the story of how and why I did it.
Ruby on Rails
Rails is a really nice to work with web
framework which is "Optimizing for programmer...
rbenv is a utility for installing multiple ruby
versions on a host machine. Using rbenv allows you to install ruby in a path you have ownership
over so you can install gems without having to have sudo or root privileges. rbenv also allows
you to target the exact ruby version in development...