The TripleO project team has been embarking on developing Ansible roles for deploying and operating OpenStack clouds. While this is not new, over the last couple of months, we've re-ignited our simplification efforts and have focused on creating simple, well-tested tooling. We started by collecting all of our Ansible tools into one place, creating documentation, and then testing. Throughout this last cycle,...
When using BTRFS volumes it's sometimes necessary to move things around. BTRFS has some great tools to assist operators to move volumes and this post will cover one available method. What is this post about While the reasons to move a device from one place to another are numerous, this post will focus on moving a BTRFS loopback file to a logical...
Sometimes you feel like fstab, sometimes you don't. If you're running modern Linux and are wanting to invest all of your brain power in a systemd thing-a-me and you're wishing there's was systemd way to mount a file-system(s), you're in luck! In this post I'm going to quickly cover how to mount an NFS export using nothing more than systemd mount...
The Ubuntu 16.04 installation process requires the use of a CD when doing an installation with "physical" media. If you're wanting to do a Ubuntu server installation using a USB stick you will be "shit out of luck" according to the fine folks at Canonical; they have no built in capability to solve this issue or allow...
Thoughts on Building a better Cloud Over the past few weeks I have been asked several times how I would setup a new infrastructure using the Cloud. While this is like asking someone to design a Rain Cloud, You can not design a rain cloud but you can seed a cloud, building cloud infrastructures is something I believe I can speak intelligently...
