Wow, so a lot to cover today. I recently moved out of my parents basement and into my own townhome with the wife and dog! Unfortunately, that means that we're back to paying 100% of the utilities and I'm giving some strong consideration to changing my home lab from an
I've done it with Puppet, and with Chef - but I thought I would give it a go with Ansible. VI management! Today I spent an hour brute forcing my way through ansible with one goal in mind: create a playbook that will get vim installed and configured with the
In the previous article, I created three CoreOS VMs and got them to talk to each other using etcd. In this article, we'll be going over cloud-config/config-drive and getting an etcd cluster that automatically starts and discovers new nodes using the freely available discovery.etcd.io service. Cloud Config
I have been noticing my Zabbix server had been alerting on high I/O and CPU wait times on several VMs when multiple servers were powered on or other concurrent high I/O tasks took place. I had a feeling it may have been due to two things: The relative
I now have three CoreOS boxes setup in my home lab - following the steps here. But just having three CoreOS boxes doing nothing is boring, so I've decided to try and accomplish the following: Figure out how to cluster the three CoreOS VMs / get containers to bounce between VMs