471 Stories by Ajeet Raina
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....
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...
"Is VM passe?" ~ this is an important debate ongoing around the globe among the CEOs, CFOs and CIOs. Most of the industry experts...
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....
This is a tutorial series for understanding how Docker Networking really works. I have tried to put it in very simple language so that...
Building .DEB package is still a daunting process. It involves a series of compiling, linking and building the source packages. Compiling tuns your source...
You must be curious about what goes in and out of the running Docker containers. Debugging a normal Linux system processes is very much...
Docker is an amazing technology and it just simplifies both workflows and communication. Traditionally, the cycle of getting an application from local development to...
Just like Docker, Amazon and Red Hat too announced the availability of Docker formatted container images. This is purely an effort to enable Docker...
I had dozens of Docker containers and images running on my host machine. I played around those images for my internal project work. I...
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...
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...
I still follow the same old traditional mediawiki software to track the roadmap, knowledge base articles, latest and updates for Linux Kernel, released operating...
Are you a Microsoft enthusiast? Do you want to try running containers on Windows platform? Then you have at the right place. As of...
Last month at San Francisco @ Dockercon15, there were numerous exciting announcement which includes runtime container called runC, Docker network, Docker Notary etc. Docker...
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...
Today we are going to look at an interesting concept of linking containers. In our previous post, we pulled LAMP which is a complete...
Yesterday evening I decided to spend time on setting up LAMP( Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) stack inside a docker container. I managed to...
This is step by step guide on how to push Docker Image to Docker Hub registry. To get started with this post, I assume...
This blog post describes how to automate the bare metal provisioning of physical and virtual machines through Razor. Razor is an open source tool...
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...
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...
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,...
Few months back I tried setting up Puppet on Solaris platform. Puppetlabs provides bits for Puppet Enterprise software for Solaris in their official website....
By default, the Iperf client connects to the Iperf server on the TCP port 5001 and the bandwidth displayed by Iperf is the bandwidth...
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...
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....
Are you running out of space while creating more and more containers? Here is a guide to change the default docker installation directory so...
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...
Want to know the inactive users on your Linux machine who have not been using the machine since long time? The following simple shell...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What is Docker? Docker is a lightweight containerization technology that has gained widespread popularity in recent years. What does Docker uses? It uses a...
Docker is a new open source tool based on Linux container technology (LXC). LXC is an OS level virtualization method for running multiple isolated...
Looking for VMware vSphere High Availability based Interview questions? I have attempted to gather important interview questions which you might find useful for your...
Setting up Salt Halite is not straightforward process. Its a WebUI for Salt master where you can easily run commands and manage minions. I...
SaltStack is an extremely fast and scalable systems and configuration management software for predictive orchestration, cloud and data center automation, server provisioning, application deployment...
Are you preparing for Hadoop Interview? Have you spent last several hours to get the collection of Hadoop MapReduce questions? Are you in last...
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...
Puppet is an open source framework and toolset for managing the configuration of computer systems. Puppet can be used to manage configuration on UNIX...
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...
While attending RHCE examination, I faced a lot of question related to Apache. While installation and configuration of Apache was the first topic, I...
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...
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...
Today is the day 1 of Learn Puppet with Me. I am starting this thread for those who want to learn Puppet smoothly. Puppet...
RAID 1 creates a mirror on the second drive. .You will need to create RAID aware partitions on your drives before you can create...
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....
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...
Recently one of my colleague called me up with a problem statement where he was finding difficulty configuring JBOSS through puppet. I tried to...
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...
Installing Java Development toolkit on Linux is always matter of difficulty since Oracle provides both RPM and tarballs in their official website. Installing RPM...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"Can Linux be installed without swap space?". This question was asked to me on one of Linux System admin interview. It might confuse anyone...
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...
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...
SmartFoxServer is a massive multiplayer platform for building games, MMO communities, virtual worlds, realtime multiplayer games. To setup SFS, in short on Linux platform...
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...
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...
If you are a system admin who is still sticking to Clonezilla, you must probably look out to try FOG - a very fast...
Puppet is an IT automation tool which has already gained popularity among the system admins, developers and Cloud architects. Whether its operating system resource...
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero...
Yesterday I attended Open Source India 2014 event which happened in NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru. If you are new to OSI, let me brief...
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...
Automation always saves your considerable time. Especially when you have to follow the similar step for hundreds of machine, automated scripts and tools have...
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...
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...
