Packer: build multiple images easily

16 January 2015 in Ansible, Debian, Docker, Hi-Tech, Linux, Red Hat, Virtualization

Packer is one of the tools I’ve used in the past to build VirtualBox boxes. You can find what I’ve done on my GitHub account. For Smash project, I wanted to make a packer configuration to manage Docker and VirtualBox. I also wanted to call Ansible to build specific images for each needs. The goal is to be able to build cloud image ready to start, without any special dependencies. This because I need different usages:

Vagrant: provision vms and containers with Ansible

13 January 2015 in Ansible, Debian, Hi-Tech, Linux, Red Hat, Vagrant, Virtualization

In the last post, I talked about how to manage Docker and VirtualBox with Vagrant. This post follows the last one, with the integration of Ansible as a provisioner. Once again, I’m using it for the Smash project. With Ansible, I made several “group_vars” files containing custom and common information related to the used environment (dev, uat, staging…). This helps to setup different kind of environment easily. Vagrant will help to build images with Ansible deployed inside.

OpenStack Summit in Paris on Monday!

1 November 2014 in Debian, Hi-Tech, Linux, OpenStack, Red Hat, Virtualization

OpenStack Summit will take place in Paris in 2 days! I’m excited to be able to participate. Big thanks to eNovance/RedHat for it! To know more about the event, please follow the link.

Migrating from KVM to LXC…feedbacks

10 June 2014 in Ansible, Debian, Hi-Tech, Linux, LXC, Virtualization

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.

CoreOS: minimize your bare metal usage

29 May 2014 in Docker, Hi-Tech, Virtualization

CoreOS is a new Linux distribution that has been rearchitected to provide features needed to run modern infrastructure stacks. The strategies and architectures that influence CoreOS allow companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter to run their services at scale with high resilience. We’ve implemented them correctly so you don’t have to endure the slow, learn-as-you-go infrastructure building process. CoreOS can run on your existing hardware or on most cloud providers.

Docker: only 10 min to play with basics

27 May 2014 in Debian, Docker, Hi-Tech, Linux, LXC, Virtualization

I’ve heard of Docker a year ago, started to play with it for some months and really start using it a few days ago. At first, I thought it was more complex than expected and finally I saw how simple it is and how many time I’ve lost because I didn’t used it. Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere.

Vagrant and Ansible are out in version 1.6

7 May 2014 in Ansible, Docker, Hi-Tech, Linux, Vagrant, Virtualization

Vagrant and Ansible are out in version 1.6! They are both bringing new super features. For Vagrant, each major versions are bringing incredible features, this time they are: Global Status and Control: Global Status shows you the status of all created Vagrant environments on your machine. Global Control lets you control any of these created environments from anywhere on your machine. You unfortunately need to have VM created under 1.

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