system administration
Snappy Ubuntu Core on SmartOS hypervisor
Snappy Ubuntu Core has been announced two days ago. I was counting that sooner or later there will be some alternative to Project Atomic and here we are. What I found a bit surprising was the immediate compatibility with Microsoft Azure. I also found this statement: Microsoft loves Linux[...] Creepy…
Filip Chabik
Debian VM on SmartOS hypervisor
This is a second post of the series on minimal Linux VMs deployments on SmartOS hypervisor. Same as in case of Gentoo I decided to go with systemd and btrfs for system & service management and main/only filesystem respectively. Environment outline I'm trying to keep things relatively tidy, espec…
Filip Chabik
Gentoo VM on SmartOS hypervisor
I wanted to have a small, "minimalistic" VMs on my hypervisor, so they would have very little footprint on resources. I decided to go with systemd and btrfs for system & service management and main/only filesystem respectively. The only considered distributions up for that task (at lea…
Filip Chabik
graylog2 systemd scripts
Recently I've been migrating to new infrastructure -- I will most definitely write about it more in separate post(s) -- and I found myself in need of some centralized log server. I played a bit with different tools and eventually settled with graylog2. Current setup looks as follows: First node: gra…
Filip Chabik