I wanted to update my hardware setup for the Docker Swarm cluster from post Portable #Docker #Swarm made of #RaspberryPI. The idea was to make it more portable, more reliable and a bit faster. The following steps were done: Add ethernet support The original setup used a small Edimax router with the Raspberry Pi nodes… Read More »
Nginx can be used very nicely to aggregate resources after the same fronted by using it as a proxy. I want my set-up to be like: URL1: https://blog.voina.uk -> nas1 hosted wordpress URL2: https://blog.voina.uk/store -> nas2 hosted store with URL https://nas/store URL3: https://blog.voina.uk/doc -> nas4 hosted wiki with URL https://nas4/wiki How can we do this… Read More »
Finally the description of the migration of GitHub to Kubernets. This is so nice when you see open source getting used in the huge scale services. Kind of makes it easier for you to push this kind of stuff in the conservative IT business industries. Enjoy the article Kubernets at GitHub A wonderful new GitHub… Read More »
Again and again the same myths and misunderstandings resurface from time to time. I noticed again a misplaced hype in an article shared on twitter about how biometric authentication will simplify banking. I have to share again something I learned many years ago when I was junior research student in a computer security group and… Read More »
In a DRBD setup as described in #DRBD based disk replication of a production cluster to a remote site cluster on RHEL 6 there is a special case when due to some external issues the communication line between the sites is down due to technical reason for a longer period of time (days). The line… Read More »
I am pleased to make some promotion for the new book of my wife, that deals with European politics. Interesting and complicated stuff from the world of European Governance. ” Why does the region of Saxony-Anhalt participate in the European Multi-Level Governance system and how does this occur? This book provides an account of the… Read More »
This is the new cool thing to build at home. A small cluster made of Raspberry PIs. Hardware setup of the cluster ITEM 1: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B I went for a set of 5 PIs because of the greater flexibility when you get more machines. I hope to be able to test several… Read More »
When running complex environments on Docker on Linux again we face the mighty selinux. There are plenty of selinux alerts generated when I start my environment when the host machines have selinux enabled and volumes are used by the containers. Setting selinux permissions is hard and tedious and many people just prefer to disable it.… Read More »
This is another post related to the DRBD replication setup I describe in post #DRBD based disk replication of a production cluster to a remote site cluster on RHEL 6. Sometimes we need to be able to mount the offline replicated Oracle database instance for investigations. This can be done by using logical volume snapshots.… Read More »
There are some hidden dependencies of running oracle database in a docker container under Fedora/CentOS/RedHat Linux. STEP 1: Kernel parameters Because the Oracle engine from the Docker container uses in fact the kernel of the host machine we cannot escape the need to set up some kernel parameters on the host. On the host machine… Read More »