Linux Expand EXT4 Disk in Debian 10 Once the reboot was completed I used fdisk to resize the partition then resize2fs to resize the filesystem. I did not unmount the filesystem during this process, EXT4 can be resized online.
DevOps Install Rancher OS in Hyper-V As I installed Rancher OS in Hyper-V I ran into a couple of issues. Here's what they were and how to get around them.
DevOps Sticky Sessions in Traefik 2.1 As I move from Docker to Kubernetes I am moving to use Traefik 2.1 for my ingress. I need sticky sessions to support some of my applications.
DevOps 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.
DevOps 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,
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.
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&
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,
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