I am using Nagios for about 8 years now for personal and professional usage. What I can say is, this is a super product, old and stable but not as scalable as I would like. We’re in the age of Cloud computing and in my opinion we shouldn’t have to take care about backup and monitoring in now days, this should be automatic. I was searching a solution for my personal usages, that’s why I first wanted a lightweight solution but with enough maturity to auto discover my newly created LXC containers.

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All, I’m proud to announce my first book available for pre-order! I’m really happy to have finished it and see after several months of hard work that it will be soon available. Who is this book for? MariaDB High Performance is aimed at system administrators/architects or DBAs who want to learn more about how to grow their current infrastructure to support larger traffic. Before beginning with this book, we expect you to be well–practised with MySQL/MariaDB for common usage.

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I recently talked about Gogs and really like this solution. The main problem I encounter was the current stable version which may not be usable on Debian. Here is a quick solution to make it work. First of all, install git: apt-get install git Then you can download the latest compiled version directly from gobuild. wget http://gobuild.io/github.com/gogits/gogs/master/linux/amd64 -O output.zip unzip output.zip ./start.sh You can now access to port 3000. If you want to use it through a web server, here is my configuration with Nginx.

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I was using Gitweb for about 3 years now and wanted to have a more enhanced web version. I started to look at 3 solutions for my own needs. So my comparison is for my own usage with 2 or 3 friends at max and not for enterprise: GitHub: can make free public and paid private repositories. Sounds very good, the most powerful solution of the market in my opinion.

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In the previous posts, I’ve introduced my Ansible playbooks for kibana and Elasticsearch. You may now be happy to know that I’ve made an Ansible playbook for Fluentd as well. If you still don’t see what those tree ansible playbook can do when they are combined together, you’ll see in the next post :-)

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As I’m an Ansible fan, I’ve created a playbook for it available on GitHub and on the Ansible Galaxy. You’ll be able to add additional plugins like Head, Curator, Mavel… I hope you’ll enjoy it.

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My use case is specific but not isolated. When I’m at work, I’m connected to my VPN at home. I have a specific DNS at home for my domain in deimos.lan and this is very useful to avoid me to remind all the IP of the services I have. Sometimes, I want to connect to a home service from the VPN, but my bookmarked links have my home DNS which are unknown from the DNS at work.

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