I wanted to find a way to properly view resources (memory/CPU/IO) usages or configuration. For that I need to use cgroups. But the problem are on free, top, htop or common any tools, as they do not get the real informations of the container. We’re in fact waiting on a lot of work on the kernel side or systemd side. More information’s can be found here. Another solution that permit to bind a socks inside containers exists called CGManager, however classical tools doesn’t use it to get informations.

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I recently upgraded the wiki to version 1.23 (new LTS version). As usual Mediawiki made a very good work, no problems during migration using Git, everything is working. No major visual changes between the previous version 1.22 and this one. I didn’t had to touch anything on my JS, CSS or configuration! Great! I encountered an issue with my GoogleSearch extension and made the changes to make it work again. So a new version (0.

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I recently migrated this server to a new one. New hardware, better performance, less power consumption etc…Thanks Online. I’m already using LXC on my home server and see the benefits for 8 months ago. That’s why I decided to migrate this server to LXC as well. The difference here is that I wanted to migrate my VM from KVM. All my KVM VM are on Debian Wheezy so that was pretty easy.

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Luc (@lstep) informed me about an interesting software that looks like Juju at first and I wanted to share it with you. It’s called Gaudi. If you already use Docker to setup your dev box for large applications, don’t you suffer to maintain complex Dockerfiles? Splitting a service Oriented Architecture into several Docker containers is the solution, except managing links and mounts between them is a pain. gaudi solves that by offering a way to describe a system of Docker containers using a simple DSL.

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This is a very good news if you’re using Ceph in production! Originally delivered as a proprietary dashboard included with Inktank Ceph Enterprise, Calamari has some really great visualization stuff for your cluster as well as the long term goal of being the all-in-wonder management system that can configure and analyze a Ceph cluster. Calamari is composed in 2 elements: Backend: the Calamari backend is written in Python 2.6+, using Saltstack, ZeroRPC, gevent, Django, django-rest-framework, graphite, (and a few others I may have forgotten) and instantiates a new REST API for integration with other systems.

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Pierre Mavro / Deimosfr


Qovery Co-Founder and CTO

Paris - France