One of the greatest things about open source and free tools is that they are…well, open source, and free! Today I’m sharing a simple HashiCorp Nomad lab build that I use for a variety of things. The reason I want to be able to quickly spin up local lab infrastructure is so I can get … Read more
As promised, it’s time to get to the catalog goodness. Since GlusterFS hasn’t gotten enough love from me lately, it’s time to bring that into the process as part of my Rancher demo. The goal with this exercise is to spin up a GlusterFS environment and to expand it using the built-in capabilities provided by … Read more
I’m all about saving time, money, and making things simple to use. Luckily, CoreOS and Vagrant have become a big part of making that happen for me lately with a lot of work I’ve been doing in and out of my day-to-day lab experiences. It was especially exciting for me today as I had an … Read more
A recent change to my networking environment added the requirement to put different VM guests onto different VLANs according to their role. This is a fairly common configuration for a lot of virtualized datacenters. What is also common is that we don’t have the design fully prepared when we build our virtual infrastructure. Limitations of … Read more