Greetings mere mortal! I wanted to share some networking tips that I’ve just learned as a result of one of my other projects. I look at creating and attaching LXC profiles to a VLAN network as opposed to the standard NAT bridge that LXD configures by default. There’s also some […]
containers
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I’m currently busy with a project in my home lab that requires a machine on my test LAN to be issuing IP addresses. I figured I’d use an LXC container on my Ubuntu Desktop because it’s lightweight and a convenient way to contain DHCP server software without having to install […]
There’s a massive trend right now to containerise application deployments. It makes sense to do so because there’s no real reason to run every application on it’s own dedicated server. Instead, putting it inside it’s own little box makes it highly portable and a pleasure to deal with… sort of. […]
One of the most annoying things about dealing with Solaris zones deployed using OEDA is that all VM’s get deployed into a single LUN. What this means is even though your database hosts may be “isolated” from each other, they all depend on one top level ZFS dataset for their […]
When working with Solaris zones, it’s inevitable that you will need to pass some kind of additional storage into the zone from the Global zone. One of my favourite ways to do this is to delegate a ZFS dataset to the zone. The benefit here is that you can run […]