Customizing iomega StorCenter ix4-200d with ipkg
I have the iomega StorCenter ix4-200d. It is a nice little NAS with a number of decent features including rsync server etc. Unfortunately there were couple things I wanted fixed since for example rsync...
View ArticleInstalling RedHat 6 Enterprise DomU under Xen
Recently I downloaded RedHat 6 Enteprise beta (RHEL6). I wanted to install it as a Xen guest (DomU) on top of an existing Centos 5 Xen host. Unfortunately it did not work out of the box. I ran...
View ArticleStore your cron output for analysis and correlation with cronologger
For the longest time I have wanted to get rid of dozen or so cron messages I receive every morning about things like DB backups, DB cleanups/vacuums, reporting etc. There are a number of solutions out...
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Bootstraping your cloud environment with puppet and mcollective
This is a "recipe" on how to bootstrap your whole environment in case of a disaster ie. your data center goes dark or if you are migrating from one environment to another. This guide differs from...
View ArticleInstall Openstack Nova easily using Chef and Nova-Solo
Inspired by Cloudscaling's Swift-Solo and being excited about being able to create my own cloud I am announcing the Nova-Solo project. Openstack Nova is the Compute portion of the project trying to...
View ArticleUsing Jenkins as a Cron Server
There are a number of problems with cron which cause lots of grief for system administrators with big ones being manageability, cron-spam and auditability. To fix some of these issues I have lately...
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