Everyone is looking to the cloud for solutions to many problems. This could be for centralizing applications and data, ensuring availability regardless of location, enabling scale-out application infrastructure, or many other reasons. One of the reasons is to use the cloud as a BCP/DR (Business Continuity Planning/Disaster Recovery) target, which is also a great use-case … Read more
One of the challenges with using Vagrant and VirtualBox for my labs is that I run download processes over and over again. This is good for testing, but not very good for time and bandwidth usage. When we have really aggressive downloading needs like apt repository files and such, there is something that can really … Read more
Recently we were working with our simple Vagrant and VirtualBox configuration to create a new Ubuntu 14.04 server which will be the baseline for some more blogs I’m building. This is where we start to add a little more to the build process to illustrate some concepts that we are going to work on going … Read more
I’ve been reviewing books for a long time for O’Reilly Books and Packt Publishing, but there have been a few occasions that I’ve felt the extra urge to do a public review here. This time I was very pleased to be spending the last few days reading The Docker Book by James Turnbull. Two word … Read more