Posts made by RamblingBiped

Yes, I meant side-by-side with VMs.

What are you looking at using for your container hosts? I think our site/store will be living on a AWS-EC2 instance eventually, but I was thinking of dabbling with a few CoreOS VMs just to see what benefits that might bring. Would I be okay hosting containers directly on my KVM Hypervisor, or should I just spin up a VM or two and host them there?

Anybody have experience with this? I'm looking at possibly moving our webserver/webstore to docker containers for better resource utilization and easier development/deployment. I feel like I've got the gist of how things work, but looking for resources to help plan things out and any advice from those who have already done something similar.

"It reads like poetry written by someone over thirty."

@scottalanmiller That's what jumped out to me too... (aside from the more obvious humor...)

I'm running it off of my Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop system. No GUI that I know of with the free version of Ansible, though I don't really see that as much of a downside.

I'm using the free open source version. They have good documentation and it seems to have a lot lower of a learning curve when compared to Chef/Puppet. It's really quick to install and get up and running. Using YAML for config files and Jinja2 for manipulating variables via templating seems to be something that isn't going to be too tough to pick up either.

@scottalanmiller Yeah, that would be the ideal situation. Since that isn't an option though, he could easily override the default key-based auth and just use password authentication by adding the "--ask-pass" option to the manual command entry. If it fit the bill he could go a bit further and completely automate it by building a task/playbook.

I've been trying to incorporate Ansible into some of my routine tasks and really like it so far. I can definitely see it being a huge time saver for us in the future as we grow.

I know I'm a bit late to this conversation, but I think Ansible would quite possibly be a good candidate for this task. You could add your list of IPs to Ansible's host config file under a specified group and use Ansible's CLI to run a single command against every host in that group simultaneously or at a specified interval.

Ansible uses SSH for pretty much everything it does, so if the credentials are the same for all hosts I believe it will cache them and use them with each host without prompting multiple times. Just another avenue to consider.

I'm using 14.04 as my daily driver. It lives under "/etc/iptables.conf".

Server updates....

Desktop deployments.......

Not enjoying the beautiful day oustide.............

Eating a hunk of aged sharp cheddar and drinking an awful cup of Folger's.

If you're looking for something similarly spec'd you could just buy and beef up a Thinkserver TS440. They are pretty inexpensive, have 8 bays for drives, Xeon E3-1225 v3 proc, ECC memory, redundant power supply (only comes with on slot populated), and start off under $500.

http://www.amazon.com/ThinkServer-70AQ0009UX-E3-1225-Desktop-Computer/dp/B00ILH15DA/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1432915118&sr=8-2-fkmr2&keywords=ibm+thinkserver+xeon+ts440

@scottalanmiller Yeah, I've done a lot of the codecademy stuff. Finished their Python modules, started the Ruby, and have started going through some of the web dev stuff as a refresher on HTML5/CSS3.

Any open source projects that might be beneficial to look in on and eventually contribute to?

@scottalanmiller Initially it will probably be geared toward system administration. However, I am really interested in learning to build applications using frameworks like Rails and Django. I've got the potential to use just about everything discussed thus far with future projects that could happen here. We do a lot of prototype hardware/software developments for start-ups and engineering departments of larger companies.

Really that is one of the questions I hope to answer as I get more hands on experience moving forward.

@scottalanmiller And that made ME laugh out loud...

@StrongBad And that is another nice aspect of this program; I don't have the traditional course structure. If I am proficient in the material I can pretty much go strait to the exams and test out with no penalty whatsoever. It is all done at my own pace completely independent of a class. I'll definitely take a look at the book, I've got a month before my first class starts.

I actually use vi/vim fairly regulary and am already familiar with the basic commands. We are a mostly Linux shop here and I try to avoid MS whenever possible...

@scottalanmiller There were numerous responses before I could copy and paste the original post from here... lol