CentOS

CentOS 8 has been out for a few weeks, so this weekend I decided to have a play.

It has been a while as I have been busy writing, I thought I would spend some of my freetime having a very quick play with Ansible AWX, which is the Open Source version of Ansible Tower. I created the following Vagrantfile to launch a CentOS 7 server; ...

Earlier this week the guys over at sysdig announced the availability of Falco, a behavioral security service which is built on top of their core Open Source sysdig engine. As is always the case when I try new things, I launched a Digital Ocean Droplet running CentOS 7. ...

Jenkins has always been a bit of an elephant in the room to me. Not being a developer I have always just shrugged it off a tool used for running unit tests, however, as I moving more into orchestration and automation I am finding the need for a tool which can run both tasks and unit tests, so this weekend I decided to finally take the plunge and have a play around with it. ...

I have been reading about Flocker for quite a while and it’s been something I have been meaning to look at since the introduction of plugins back in the Docker 1.7 release. But I have been busy looking at other parts of Docker. ...

A while I posted about a script I wrote to quickly bootstrap a Digital Ocean droplet. One one of the things I noticed while trying to install a few packages is that even though my script had run a yum update I was booting into the original Kernel and this was causing all sorts of hilarity when trying to build a Kernel module, because of this I added a few lines to my script to tell you if the kernel has been updated, and if so what the new version is; ...