February 2017 – RickyAdams.com

Packer: In 10 minutes, from zero to bootable VirtualBox Ubuntu 12.04

February 13, 2017 Ricky Adams

Packer: In 10 minutes, from zero to bootable VirtualBox Ubuntu 12.04 Updated: June 21, 2016 Trying to build a simple VirtualBox Ubuntu image was not without digging around, even though the documentation at Packer would lead you to believe everything is quite straightforward. If you were looking for a concrete example of creating a VirtualBox Ubuntu 12.04 LTS image with Packer, this should be a straightforward guide to get you up and running fast. (Updated for packer v0.10.1) Packer is…

vOneCloud – A Simple Poor Man’s vCloud

February 8, 2017 Ricky Adams

SOURCE: http://vonecloud.today/ A Cloud on VMware vCenter vOneCloud is an OpenNebula distribution optimized to work on existing VMware vCenter deployments. It deploys an enterprise-ready OpenNebula cloud just in a few minutes where the infrastructure is managed by already familiar VMware tools, such as vSphere and vCenter Operations Manager, and the provisioning, elasticity and multi-tenancy cloud features are offered by OpenNebula Powerful Virtual data centers, self-service portal, datacenter federation, hybrid cloud on your VMware environment Cost Effective Free, there are no…

Infrastructure-As-Code (IAC) – Terraform Versus The Others

February 8, 2017 Ricky Adams

SOURCE: https://blog.gruntwork.io/why-we-use-terraform-and-not-chef-puppet-ansible-saltstack-or-cloudformation-7989dad2865c#.gxz3kx827 Update: we took this blog post series, expanded it, and turned it into a book called Terraform: Up & Running! This is Part 1 of the Comprehensive Guide to Terraform series. In the intro to the series, we discussed why every company should be using infrastructure-as-code (IAC). In this post, we’re going to discuss why we picked Terraform as our IAC tool of choice. If you search the Internet for “infrastructure-as-code”, it’s pretty easy to come up with…

Linux Script to Autostart a Background Process if not running

February 7, 2017 Ricky Adams

# start a background process if it is not running, can also use in cron to check every hour or so #!/bin/sh if ! ps -elf | grep -v grep | grep processname ; then python processname.py >> /home/user/bin/spooler.log & ## #mailing program ## /home/user/bin/simplemail.php “Print spooler was not running… Restarted.” fi