Greetings mere mortal! In today’s experiment I discuss the concept of pods. I briefly touch on the differences between Intel Rack Scale Design pods and KVM pods and then do a conversational walk through of using KVM pods in MAAS 2.6.x as a simple, easy to use Virtualization solution. I […]
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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. […]
This may seem like a useless post, but I’ve always wondered about the banner ssh shows when connecting to a new server. How do you actually know that you’re connecting to the correct server. Usually when ssh’ing to a host you see a banner like this one : test@creamsoda:~$ ssh […]
There’s been a couple times where I’ve been forced to run application front ends with SSL and valid certificates. In the big and scary enterprise world this is easily overcome by throwing money at the problem and a late night or two for the OPS team. It gets harder when […]