Thoughts on DevOps, cloud-native technologies, and platform engineering.
For some time now I wanted to start blogging again for several reasons. One of them is that I frequently build interesting things on AWS, discover a new open source tool or just experiment with technology and never really keep some kind of documentation for later reference.
Read moreI’ve been playing with Project Atomic as a platform to run Docker containers for some time now. The reason that I like Project Atomic is something for another blogpost. But one of the reasons is that while it’s a minimal OS, it comes with Python so I can use Ansible to do orchestration and configuration management.
Read moreTL;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 :
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