I have been installing and exposing SSH on most of the containers I have deployed, which I know is wrong. As I have been trying to do things in a more “devops” way I decided to do a little reading on how I can enter and leave running containers on my CentOS 7 instance without having to expose SSH or configure users. This is when I came across nsenter↗ & docker-enter↗ ....
At least once a day I skim through a large number of blogs in my Feedly↗ feed using Reeder 2↗ , when I see something which catches my eye I send it over to Pocket↗ so it is sync’ed to all of my devices. Here are some of the posts I have saved for further reading …. Docker / PaaS PaaS for Realists↗ Why is Docker the new craze in virtualization and cloud computing?...
For the last few years I have been grabbing some we documented dotfiles from GitHub↗ but most of them have either ended up reconfigured my Mac to the point of it being unrecognisable or they have just been a collection of useful aliases. The I came across Bashstrap↗ , it was close enough to what I wanted so I forked it↗ …. You can install them using the following commands;...
Google announced earlier this week that they are going to use HTTPS as a ranking signal↗ : We want to go even further. At Google I/O a few months ago, we called for “HTTPS everywhere” on the web. We’ve also seen more and more webmasters adopting HTTPS (also known as HTTP over TLS, or Transport Layer Security), on their website, which is encouraging. For these reasons, over the past few months we’ve been running tests taking into account whether sites use secure, encrypted connections as a signal in our search ranking algorithms....
Last week I posted about upgrading my servers to CentOS 7, one of the main factors about upgrading to CentOS 7 was the jump in kernel version (from 2.6.x to 3.10.x). Also, it was so that I could use more modern versions core of software without having to worry about installing numerous additional repos. The funny thing is that all of the software I have been waiting to use have been available in both Fedora↗ and Ubuntu↗ for quite a while, so why have I waited?...
==PLEASE NOTE: THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE NOW OUTDATED, SEE THIS POST FOR AN UPDATE== After I dabbled with CentOS 7 a few weeks ago I decided to take the plunge and upgrade the few servers I run at DigitalOcean↗ to CentOS 7. I run two machines, one is a Puppet and Salt Master, the second runs Docker. Puppet Master Server A while back I added a few bash scripts to deploy both a Puppet Master & Agent↗ to GitHub, as Puppet provide a repo for CentOS 7 I decided to just update the installation script to use this repo and then give ago....
It’s been a while since I listed what I am using day-to-day so I thought I would do a quick update; Desktop Apps SublimeText↗ — Text Editor GitHub Mac Client↗ — The Mac GitHub client Marked2↗ — Preview Markdown in real-time Photoshop↗ — For ermmmmm Photos OmniGraffle↗ — For diagrams and stuff 1Password↗ — Locking all my passwords away Reeder 2↗ — For reading all my newsfeeds Commandline Apps Home Brew↗ — Install “missing” stuff on macs Cask↗ — Install Mac Apps using the command line using Brew StormSSH↗ — Key & hosts management known_hosts↗ — A simple cli known hosts manager Packer↗ — Build machine images Z↗ — Jump around the CLI Jekyll↗ — What this blog is published with Server Stack CentOS 7↗ — The Base OS Puppet↗ — Configuration Management SaltStack↗ — Infrastructure management Docker↗ — Run Linux containers New Relic↗ — Server Monitoring Services Digital Ocean↗ — Server Hosting AWS↗ — Server Hosting CloudFlare↗ — CDN & Stuff Github↗ — Code Hosting Pinboard↗ — Bookmarks EverNote↗ — Note taking RememberTheMilk↗ — Task management Feedly↗ — For managing all the newsfeeds Pocket↗ — For reading articles later The biggest change since the last update is …....
As part of another work project I needed to install some central logging to run in AWS. Simple you may say, create an instance and use Puppet to install ELK server stack↗ on there, or go back to basics and create a rsyslog↗ server. Normally this would be well and good, however I needed to ensure that all parts solution were highly available and fully redundant, this meant that I would have engineer a lot of HA into my ELK or rsyslog servers....