Posted inOpensource
List of DevOps Tools
List of DevOps tools :-) Note all credits go to @xebialabs
Posted inCassandra Nutanix Opensource
Single node Cassandra on Ubuntu 18.10
Nutanix uses Cassandra as it's metadata store. But what if we needed a Cassandra node locally - on our local machine - Cassandra, essentially, is an OpenSource project, so technically,…
Posted inBlockchain Opensource
Blockchain
With Bitcoin, Ethereum and all the other cryptocurrencies around - what exactly are cryptocurrencies anyway? How do they function? Can they be used for any other purposes? This is a…
Posted inNutanix Opensource Publish
Creating Multiple VMs using Terraform – Nutanix Provider
Building on the previous example, let's use Terraform to create multiple VM's using just one Terraform file/configuration. Let's take the previous example's tf file and check the options available $…
Posted inNutanix Opensource Publish
Terraform using Nutanix Provider and V3 APIs
Below is an example of creating a basic VM (CentOS) on a Nutanix cluster using Terraform Points to note: Cluster is already UP and running AHVCentOS image is already present…
Posted inOpensource Publish Vagrant
Vagrant File Example | Virtualbox
So here's an example Vagrant YAML file that does the following: Spins a CentOS 7 VMGives it a Static IPInstalls on VirtualBox on the local machineSets the vCPU and MemoryCreates…
Posted inDocker Jenkins Opensource
Jenkins on Docker on a Mac using Kitematic!
A short video walkthrough of installing Jenkins on Docker using Kitematic. The entire installation is done on a Mac running Virtualbox https://youtu.be/R3j7uBJVKpg
Posted inKubernetes
K8S 101 – The Basics!
Kubernetes 101 - the absolute basics! At the basic level, Kubernetes is comprised of: Cluster A Kubernetes cluster is a set of physical or virtual machines and other infrastructure resources…
Posted inDocker Grafana Opensource
Grafana on Docker on Mac! Under 1 minute!
What do you do when you have a minute to spare and just have a Mac with Docker running? Well, you install Grafana! In under a minute! And then clean…
Workaround for a locked “root” account on ESXi 6.5 on Nutanix
The ESXi 6.x root account now has account lockout policies set. So if an incorrect password is used too many times, this will case the ESXi root password to get…
Posted inNomad Opensource
Nomad
Nomad is an infrastructure lifecycle management tool and differs from Terraform in that Terraform is more of a build/config/provisioning tool. Installation and getting started with Nomad is pretty simple For…
Posted inDocker Opensource
Resolving the Kitematic install error
Kitematic, which is now a part of Docker actually fails to initialize (at least on my Mac) So this is what this looks like Kitematic Initialization failure The log snippets…
Using Vagrant to install an EC2 instance
Let's test Vagrant to deploy an EC2 instance to AWS. For this, the first thing we need is to install the aws plugin for Vagrant. My Vagrant instance currently just…
Posted inAWS
EC2 on AWS
An instance is a virtual server in the AWS cloud. Points to note Instances are Amazon EBS-backed meaning that the root volume is an EBS volumeThe instance consists of the…
Posted inAlibaba Cloud
Getting started with AliCloud
Alicloud is the cloud offering from the Alibaba group. Getting started with Alicloud is pretty simple but has a few quirks you need to be aware of. While GCP and…
Posted inDocker Opensource
Docker
Docker, put simply, is a container platform - which solves the issue of running code that is OS agnostic (to an extent) and allows for the application to be freed…
Posted inOpensource Vagrant
Vagrant
Vagrant is an open source provisioning tool from Hashicorp. It uses a concept of "boxes" and is used to provision development environments at scale to a multi cloud environment -…
Posted inVMware
ESXi boot issues troubleshooting
Troubleshooting ESXi boot issues. A look at logs and some troubleshooting options https://youtu.be/9l6qj3evlLM
Posted inVMware
ESXi 5.5 Install and troubleshooting installs
ESXi 5.5 installs and troubleshooting installs. Again, this was long overdue, now that 6.7 is out. This video walks you through the 5.5 install, some behind the scenes, and troubleshooting…
