Tag: Virtualisation
All the articles with the tag "Virtualisation".

NFS Hang Troubleshooting Guide
I've been struggling with a docker container that accesses my NAS using NFS mounts, it hangs and refusing to restart on demand. Turns out it's related to NFS mounts. I've been struggling to kill the process as it just sits there as a zombie. Symptoms ps aux command hangs and never completes Process stuck in…

Vagrant Issues Again
Updated:Following some more system updates, it looks like updates to ruby continue to break vagrant. I thought I'd try a different approach. Can vagrant work with

Vagrant Error after Updates
After applying updates, I got an error trying to bring up a vagrant host. Error message given during initialization: Unable to resolve dependency: user req

Prometheus, Alert Manager and Docker Swarm
Updated:This is not a complete plug and go HOW-TO for using Prometheus for scaling a Docker Swarm, but it does contain the building blocks for how to do it. Orches

Vagrant and Ansible
Updated:Using Vagrant you can automatically deploy a Virtual Machine on almost any virtual platform, VMware, Virtual Box, and QEMU/KVM (libvirt). It works similarl

Virtual Machine Clustering
Updated:We've put together a number of mid-spec servers to carry out some testing on clustering using Proxmox . Many years ago I built a single Proxmox server and

Kubernetes Clustering
This week I have been dabbling in the dark arts that are Kubernetes. I read the Kubernetes getting started guide for learning it with minikube, and thought

Virtual Machine Clustering, part 2
Updated:Following on from Virtual Machine Clustering , it's taken a while to get things working as I want them. The least difficult part has been Proxmox. When it

Distributed Virtualisation
Updated:A tool box for low-cost virtualisation with replication, management and high availability without the need of expensive SAN's and shared storage devices. h

QEMU/KVM and virt-manager
Updated:Setting up an open source virtualization solution is pretty straight forward. You just need to ensure you include all the components. This should drag in a