Linux

Script the creation of VM in Hyper-V

It's about time I automated the creation of VM's in Hyper-V to mount the ISO's and start the VM's if necessary.

Elastic Search, Beats and a reverse proxy

The problem is because the HOST header isn't being sent (or it's incorrect) so the proxy doesn't know what to do with the request.

DevOps

Adding HTTPS to Kibana and Elasticsearch

This post will go over adding Kibana to my new ELK stack, enabling https, and talking to my Elasticsearch over https.

Linux

Elasticsearch and SSL

While moving my ELK stack into Docker I wanted to enable SSL. It's allowed for free in 7.2.0 so I might as well.

DevOps

Elasticsearch, NFS, and locking issues

As I migrated my ELK stack to Docker backed by an NFS share, my Elasticsearch container started spitting out errors about not able to obtain a lock.

DevOps

Elasticsearch and trace logging for everything

I needed to enable logging on everything for Elasticsearch. By everything I mean literally everything I mean literally everything, if there was a log line, I wanted to see it.

DevOps

Create Your Own Docker Registry in Docker Swarm

As I build my Docker Swarm cluster, I am needing a private registry. This is so I can host my own images internally, without needing to use a cloud service.

DevOps

Securing the remote Docker instance

Now that we've made our Docker instance accessible from a remote machine, we need to secure it.

DevOps

Docker Swarm On Debian and Hyper-V

The servers are based on Debian, have 2 processors each, with 8 gigs of ram, all 3 are running on a single Hyper-V server. I will use certificate authentication with SSH, install sudo, vim, configure networking and setup a swarm instance.

DevOps

Remote Docker Instance

I'm building a multi node Docker Swarm cluster and want to connect to it from my local desktop. I'd like to use my local development tools to build all of my Docker related files and push them up to the cluster. Note, this is an unauthenticated, full access, http (not https) configuration. It is to show a remote setup. I'm starting simple. The next post will be about securing this config. First my setup: * 3 docker nodes, docker1.example.com, docker2.example.com and docker3.example.com. * T

DevOps

Certificate Based SSH Authentication

I want to use Certificates to authenticate to my Linux servers.

DevOps

Moving Certbot to Debian 9

I'm changing out my old Ubuntu firewall server with a Debian 9 system. Step one was getting everything I need installed on it. The only issue so far, certbot.

DevOps

File Beat and IIS with multiple sites

How to get additional fields from IIS logs into ElasticSearch.

Operations

Wake-on-lan, windows 10 and Linux

Well, after having wake-on-lan running and working great (other than the stupid sleeping after a couple minutes issue) I decided I would do a quick post on how I got it working and my setup, it was actually very easy once I found the right package. First, my overall setup. Linux/Ubuntu firewall, running iptables. 2 VLans, one for everything else. My desktop is on the client VLAN and the linux firewall acts as the gateway between both VLans and the internet. My solution, SSH into the firewall

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi 2 Cross Compile kernel on Ubuntu

Since a step by step guide for cross compiling a kernel and installing it on the pi2 is pretty much non-existent, here is my guide. Ok, first step, install Ubuntu. You will need to be able to mount the SD card for the Pi, so doing it in HyperV isn't going to work, you can't mount SD Cards as block devices. I didn't try VMWare or VirtualBox, I just used an old laptop, worked great as it had an SD Card slot in it. Once you have Ubuntu installed and set up, update it to the latest and greatest, n

Linux

ZFS, 3ware 9650 and performance

Hey everyone, here's the plan, migrate all of my VM's to a data store on my NFS server, I've been wanting to do this for a while, to get off of the dedicated local storage, and move to shared. Big benefits of doing so, one of which is multiple hosts can access the same VM's for redundancy. But, I initially set up using ZFS. I went with ZFS for compression and data deduping. Turns out, deduping is a huge memory hog. Compression is a huge CPU hog (not a shocker). So, when I first created them, doi

Linux

"no network provider accepted the given network path"

I ran into a problem where I had one 2003r2 server that couldn't access the Linux samba servers but it could access the other windows server with no problems. I was using share level security in the smb.conf file. This worked fine up until about a month ago, only found out today because we needed to get something off of the backup server, which, well, since it couldn't access it, there is no backups...besides the point. Anyways. Here's the steps that DID NOT WORK * Reboot (should always be eve