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Ajeet Raina

  Bangalore https://ajeetraina.collabnix.com Ajeet Singh Raina is a Docker Captain, Community Leader and Arm Ambassador. He is a founder of Collabnix blogging site and has authored more than 550+ blogs on Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Technology. He runs a community Slack of 8700+ members and discord server close to 2000+ members. You canfollow him on Twitter(@ajeetsraina).

         



471 Stories by Ajeet Raina

How to reconstruct Parted Magic ISO through adding packages from Slackware

Parted Magic is a complete hard disk management solution.Parted Magic is a small live CD/USB/PXE with its elemental purpose being to partition hard drives....
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Automating Hyper-V VM deployment & configuration through PowerShell

I am not Microsoft guy but recently I have been asked by my colleague to assist him in automating Hyper-V VM provisioning process. There...
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Building Docker-Ready Virtual Infrastructure through Docker Machine

"Is VM passe?" ~ this is an important debate ongoing around the globe among the CEOs, CFOs and CIOs. Most of the industry experts...
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New Container Network Model @ Docker 1.9

Docker 1.9 new networking is Software Defined Networking (SDN) for containers. Pushing the experimental version to the public was a right thing Docker Inc....
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Understanding Docker Networking – Part-I

This is a tutorial series for understanding how Docker Networking really works. I have tried to put it in very simple language so that...
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How to build .DEB packages through Docker

Building .DEB package is still a daunting process. It involves a series of compiling, linking and building the source packages. Compiling tuns your source...
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The Anatomy of Docker Containers

You must be curious about what goes in and out of the running Docker containers. Debugging a normal Linux system processes is very much...
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A Docker Deployment Workflow

Docker is an amazing technology and it just simplifies both workflows and communication. Traditionally, the cycle of getting an application from local development to...
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Getting access to Docker Formatted Container Images on Red Hat Systems

Just like Docker, Amazon and Red Hat too announced the availability of Docker formatted container images. This is purely an effort to enable Docker...
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How to get rid of Docker images with no repository?

I had dozens of Docker containers and images running on my host machine. I played around those images for my internal project work. I...
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Run Dell SYSCFG inside a Docker Container

Docker is all about application. It doesn't need BIOS, NIC and firmware to run any application. But its gives you flexibility to put any...
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Running Docker Private Registry server Frontend UI

Are you planning to setup own Docker private registry in your lab? Are you planning to bring all the in-house developers to work internally...
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How to setup Mediawiki in seconds using Docker?

I still follow the same old traditional mediawiki software to track the roadmap, knowledge base articles, latest and updates for Linux Kernel, released operating...
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Running Docker containers on Windows

Are you a Microsoft enthusiast? Do you want to try running containers on Windows platform? Then you have at the right place. As of...
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Highlights from the Dockercon 2015

Last month at San Francisco @ Dockercon15, there were numerous exciting announcement which includes runtime container called runC, Docker network, Docker Notary etc. Docker...
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How to access Docker namespace?

It is never recommended to install openssh-server on the container for just mere shell access. It is always suggested to keep your container lightweight rather...
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How to Link multiple Docker containers together?

Today we are going to look at an interesting concept of linking containers. In our previous post, we pulled LAMP which is a complete...
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Setting up LAMP stack in a Docker container

Yesterday evening I decided to spend time on setting up LAMP( Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) stack inside a docker container. I managed to...
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How to push Docker Image to Docker Hub Registry?

This is step by step guide on how to push Docker Image to Docker Hub registry. To get started with this post, I assume...
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Automate the Bare Metal Provisioning Process through Puppet Razor

This blog post describes how to automate the bare metal provisioning of physical and virtual machines through Razor. Razor is an open source tool...
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Getting Started with Docker – Part-II

In my previous blog post we talked about how to pull images, create containers, start and stop the containers, today we are going to talk...
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Getting Started with Docker – Part-1

This is a step by step guide for getting started with Docker. This guide starts with a fresh CentOS 7.0 host machine, talks about how...
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Running Hadoop over Lustre

This blog post describes how to run Apache Hadoop over the open source distributed parallel file system like Lustre. Hadoop is a large-scale distributed,...
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Running Puppet on Solaris

Few months back I tried setting up Puppet on Solaris platform. Puppetlabs provides bits for Puppet Enterprise software for Solaris in their official website....
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A Dirty Guide to iPerf

By default, the Iperf client connects to the Iperf server on the TCP port 5001 and the bandwidth displayed by Iperf is the bandwidth...
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Setting up OpenStack Juno with 1 controller and compute node

Here is a helpful script which just setup 1 OpenStack Juno controller and 1 compute node in an easy way: File: controller-node-setup #!/bin/bash #get...
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Orchestrating Docker using Puppet

Dockers containers are revolutionizing the cloud computing world, spreading everywhere and powering developers world-wide to automate deployment of applications as a portable self-sufficient containers....
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How to change Docker Image Installation Directory?

Are you running out of space while creating more and more containers? Here is a guide to change the default docker installation directory so...
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Error: /usr/bin/docker: relocation error

Are you getting the below error while starting with the fresh docker installation on CentOS 7.0? /usr/bin/docker: relocation error: /usr/bin/docker: symbol dm_task_get_info_with_deferred_remove, version Base...
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How to find dormant users on your Linux Box?

Want to know the inactive users on your Linux machine who have not been using the machine since long time? The following simple shell...
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How to enable Docker behind the firewall?

Are you working in restricted corporate environment? Are you looking for how to run Docker behind the firewall.You can always specify an HTTP proxy...
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Restrict maximum simultaneous logins on Linux

Want to restrict simultaneous number of logins attempt on Linux machine? Here is the quick way of doing it. 1. Edit the file /etc/security/limits.conf...
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PowerCLI Cookbook Published !!

I am very thrilled and excited about Packtpub publisher's recently published "PowerCLI Cookbook". I have been part of a reveiwer team and spent couple...
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VMware vSphere Internals Q/A

Welcome Readers !! This is a second series of VMware vSphere Q/A which is emphasized on ESXi internals and related feature Q/A. I hope...
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Understanding Docker Container Architecture

What is Docker? Docker is a lightweight containerization technology that has gained widespread popularity in recent years. What does Docker uses? It uses a...
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Introduction to Docker Containers

Docker is a new open source tool based on Linux container technology (LXC). LXC is an OS level virtualization method for running multiple isolated...
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VMware vSphere High Availability Q/A

Looking for VMware vSphere High Availability based Interview questions? I have attempted to gather important interview questions which you might find useful for your...
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How to setup Salt Halite on CentOS 6.5

Setting up Salt Halite is not straightforward process. Its a WebUI for Salt master where you can easily run commands and manage minions. I...
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SaltStack on CentOS 6.5

SaltStack is an extremely fast and scalable systems and configuration management software for predictive orchestration, cloud and data center automation, server provisioning, application deployment...
9 min read

100 Hadoop Interview Questions

Are you preparing for Hadoop Interview? Have you spent last several hours to get the collection of Hadoop MapReduce questions? Are you in last...
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Learn Puppet With Me – Day 4

In today's session, we are going to quickstart writing a basic puppet module. A Very simple example could be creating a directory on remote...
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Learn Puppet with Me – Day 3

Puppet is an open source framework and toolset for managing the configuration of computer systems. Puppet can be used to manage configuration on UNIX...
9 min read

How to install Nagios on Linux?

Last week I thought of setting up Nagios on my Linux Box.I installed a fresh piece of RHEL on my Virtualbox and everything went...
6 min read

How to configure Directory Indexing in Apache?

While attending RHCE examination, I faced a lot of question related to Apache. While installation and configuration of Apache was the first topic, I...
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Installing Open-Xchange on Ubuntu 12.04

I thought of starting my day today with Open-Xchange. I had Vmware Workstation installed on one of Windows 7 Enterprise machine. I installed a...
4 min read

Learn Puppet with Me – Day 2

Today we are going to learn about Puppet Modules. What is Puppet Modules? Puppetlabs defines it as "Modules are self-contained bundles of code and...
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Learn Puppet With Me – Day 1

Today is the day 1 of Learn Puppet with Me. I am starting this thread for those who want to learn Puppet smoothly. Puppet...
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How to setup RAID 1 on Ubuntu Linux?

RAID 1 creates a mirror on the second drive. .You will need to create RAID aware partitions on your drives before you can create...
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How to setup RAID 0 on Ubuntu Linux?

RAID 0 will create striping to increase read/write speeds as the data can be read and written on separate disks at the same time....
1 min read

How do I bind NIC interrupts to selected CPU?

I read this interesting mailing thread few weeks back. I won't be late to share this with open source enthusiast like you. Here goes the...
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Puppet Module for JBOSS

Recently one of my colleague called me up with a problem statement where he was finding difficulty configuring JBOSS through puppet. I tried to...
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Automated shutdown of ESXi and VMs through Powershell

My friend was running a cybercafe center. He has dozens of ESXi running 100 of VMs. He was using Dell Multi-UPS Management console to...
1 min read

Installing Java Development Toolkit (JDK) on Linux

Installing Java Development toolkit on Linux is always matter of difficulty since Oracle provides both RPM and tarballs in their official website. Installing RPM...
2 min read

How to setup Domain Name Server (DNS) on Linux?

It has been long I was thinking of writing something about DNS(Domain Name Server). DNS is a database of the IP to Name and...
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How to test Multicast Packet Filtering?

Today morning I started my day testing with Multicast Packet Filtering. I had buntu 12.04.1 and CentOS 6.5 in my VM running over ESX...
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Understanding /proc/cpuinfo

A hyperthreaded processor has the same number of function units as an older, non-hyperthreaded processor. It just has two execution contexts, so it can...
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How to setup vsFTP server on Linux?

FTP refers to File Transfer Protocol. By default, Red Hat supports vsftp. If you do minimal RHEL installation, you mightn't have vsftp related RPM...
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How to increae Swap space under Linux

"Can Linux be installed without swap space?". This question was asked to me on one of Linux System admin interview. It might confuse anyone...
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How to setup Centralized Logging System on Linux?

I was just hanging around blogs until I cam across one nice piece of setting up centralized Logging setup.I thought to try it out...
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How to create password-less SSH for Linux

Sometimes you might need setting up Password-less SSH for running script or for application where you dont want to use password everytime. Here is...
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Installing SMARTFOX Server Pro on Debian

SmartFoxServer is a massive multiplayer platform for building games, MMO communities, virtual worlds, realtime multiplayer games. To setup SFS, in short on Linux platform...
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Setting up a Simple Samba Share – Part II

In the previous article we saw the practical implication of setting up a samba share.In this article we will explore more about the Samba...
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Setting up a Simple Samba Share – Part I

Samba is an important component to seamlessly integrate Linux/Unix Servers and Desktops into Active Directory environments using the winbind daemon.In simple words, Samba is...
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Fog – An Open Source Cloning Solution

If you are a system admin who is still sticking to Clonezilla, you must probably look out to try FOG - a very fast...
6 min read

Introduction to Puppet..

Puppet is an IT automation tool which has already gained popularity among the system admins, developers and Cloud architects. Whether its operating system resource...
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Getting Started with Ansible

Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero...
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It was an Openstack Day…OSI 2014

Yesterday I attended Open Source India 2014 event which happened in NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru. If you are new to OSI, let me brief...
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Installing Skype on CentOS 6.5

Getting skype working on CentOS 6.5 has been a daunting job for lot of system administrators. Usually I found system administrators posting this query...
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Automating Oracle Weblogic Server installation through shell script

Automation always saves your considerable time. Especially when you have to follow the similar step for hundreds of machine, automated scripts and tools have...
2 min read

How to integrate Redmine with Git?

Redmine built through Ruby on Rails has been impressive free and open source web-based project management. I have been Trac quite for some time...
2 min read

Running Hadoop on Ubuntu 14.04 ( Multi-Node Cluster)

This is an introductory post on Hadoop for new begineers who want step by step instruction for deploying Hadoop on the latest Ubuntu 14.04...
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