If you follow me, you should be aware that I use Vagrant every day. I wanted to get a Wheezy version with fr keyboard, up to date, correct locales and configured source.list file. I’ve also added Puppet and Chef on it. So I’ve learned on how to build a box and it’s really easy by following the documentations on the website. Here is my Debian Wheezy box based on VirtualBox provider available on DropBox or Mega.

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In those time, security is more and more important. Some vulnerabilities have been discovered and security on your SSL should be added. In fact you need to restrict the possibilities to your SSL server to avoid SSL breaks. I’ve updated my documentation to add SSL Resumption and authorized ciphers algorithms. Then you can check your SSL server security here : https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html. I hope this will help you.

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I’m currently playing with Ceph and wanted to generate multiple machines (6) on my laptop to perform several tests. I needed : 1 public network 1 private network Debian wheezy OS Automatically install Ceph Add disk for specific machines (OSD) It wasn’t easy to make it work quickly as the documentation doesn’t give a lot of examples. But what a powerful solution when it works ! If you want to try multiple VM managment, please follow the link.

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Once again, I’ve upgraded my wiki (wiki.deimos.fr) and it was really easy with git. We could see some new minor design changes like “<pre>” banners or the login page. Other interesting features are appearing like load time informations for each page edition or embedding Vector theme in the Core. A new extension manager is used called Composer and will try to look at it’s benefits shortly. Once again, thanks Mediawiki !

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I think this will be the last post for the Debian installation on MacBook Pro 13’ late 2013. To resume, here are the previous posts : http://blog.deimos.fr/2013/10/27/debian-on-the-last-macbook-pro-13/ http://blog.deimos.fr/2013/11/10/update-1-debian-on-the-111-model-macbook-pro-13/ The majority of the bugs will be resolve in the Linux Kernel 3.13. I’ve tested the rc2, but it’s too much unstable for the moment and I need to wait. Arch wiki gives a lot of informations to make (most of) everything working :

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I recently added RAID 1 on my mac mini under Debian. I used mdadm and remembered how easy it is. I’ve added some updates to my documentation to create a RAID without waiting a full sync.

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Puppetlabs recently made a book con Continuous Delivery and offer that book. Continuous delivery allows you to get new features and capabilities to market quickly and reliably. But what is this methodology, really, and what’s required to get started? This new, introductory ebook will share: What continuous delivery is and isn’t Why continuous delivery is important to your business How to get started with the cultural technological changes required to practice continuous delivery You can download it there

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