In this post I will install a Juniper vSRX for use with the vagrant-libvirt
provider. Prior to installing the vSRX there are some required steps to get the KVM host
prepped which I will not cover. These steps are covered in the Juniper
documentation
here.
For reference the following...
Recently I converted from using the Virtualbox provider for Vagrant to using the Libvirt provider. This post
will cover how to create a Cisco csr1000v Vagrant box for use with the vagrant-libvirt provider.
For reference the following software will be used in this post.
Cisco csr1000v -...
Libvirt has the ability to create a pseudo-wire between virtual guest interfaces using either TCP or UDP.
The advantage of using pseud-wires is that you do not need to create virtual switches to attach your
guest VM interfaces to.
Virtualbox has an annoying trait of stripping vlan tags on...
In this post I will cover how to create an Arista Vagrant box for use with the
vagrant-libvirt provider. This post assumes a
working installation of Vagrant with the vagrant-libvirt plugin
already installed. You can follow this
post
to get the vagrant-libvirt plugin installed.
For...
In November 2017 I had the chance to attended the Openstack summit in Sydney Australia.
I went to a great session lead by Phil Hopkins from Rackspace on how Openstack
Neutron utilizes network namespaces and VXLANs in linux to achieve multi-tenancy.
The contents of this blog came largely from...
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I am currently using Ubuntu 1604 as the OS on my laptop. It generally works well apart from one
thing ... The FRACKING NVIDIA DRIVERS.
Nvidia you can go and die in a pit fire. At least 3 or 4 times in the last 6 months the driver update
has stopped the system from booting. It gets to a...
One of the quirks of Vagrants Virtualbox provider is you cannot configure the IP address of the
management interface. It's a core design principal of the project that the management interface
IP of a box is configured via DHCP. The Virtualbox provider uses port forwarding with a NAT network...
Libvirt is a set of software tools to manage virtual machine components such as network and storage. Libvirt provdies
an abstraction layer hiding the differences across hypervisors such as KVM, Xen, VMWare ESXi, etc.. to avoid having
to worry about the intricacies of each hypervisors...
Configuring network components in linux can differ from distribution to distribution. I usually find myself
searching for the information found here so this is part documentation for me and part blog post for
anyone else who cares to read past the introduction.
This post covers various...
Ansible AWX is the upstream open source project to Ansible
Tower.
This is the first part of a series on Ansible AWX.
In this part we will install Ansible AWX.
Code versions used for this post
Centos 7 - minimal 1705.02 (vagrant box)
Python - 2.7.13
Ansible - 2.4.0
docker - 1.12.6
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