Thoughts on DevOps, cloud-native technologies, and platform engineering.
TL;DR Before you start reading this, I want to make it clear that I absolutely don’t hate Docker or the application container idea in general, at all!. I really see containers become a new way of doing things in addition to the existing technologies. In fact, I use containers myself more and more.
Read moreRecently we decided to deploy a private cloud to replace our RHEV setup. The reasoning behind this will be covered in an other blog post, but the main reason was the higher level of automation we could achieve with Opennebula compared to RHEV. In this post I would like to talk about how we used Ansible to help us with the setup of Opennebula and what we are going to do in the near future.
Read moreLast week I finished migrating our mail/collaboration platform to Zarafa, and as with all things this needs to be backed up. We’re running the Zarafa Enterprise edition which come’s with a backup tool called zarafa-backup which works like this :
Read moreRecently I’ve setup an iSCSI target based on RHEL6 + tgt. After adding Logical Volumes to a target in the tgtd config file, the iSCSI target was discoverable and ready for use.
Read moreThis blog post comes a little late because I did this RHEV setup at our company more than 6 months ago and it has been living in the drafts folder for some time now. Now with RHEV 3.0 Beta released I tought it’s time to publish this.
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