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I was in the market for a configuration management and remote execution tool. After looking around I didn’t really find any I liked and also supported SmartOS (and illumos). It quickly became clear that I would need to do some legwork. I’m by no means a great programmer and my language selection is mostly limitedContinue reading SmartOS, would you like some Salt with that?
I spent the last 3 days yak-shaving. I had the intent of looking into deploying SaltStack to monitor my zones at home. Instead I give you asmd AKA “Advanced SmartOS Management Daemon”. Yes I should really get better at naming things. So what is this asmd you speak of, you may ask? It is myContinue reading Advanced SmartOS Management Daemon
My new package repo is now live! I’m only targeting the current base64-lts release. Currently only SmartOS is supported, although it should be compatible with OmniOS using the pkgsrc bootstrap available at http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/ some recent changes (epoll) seem to have broke them as SmartOS supports it but OmniOS and Nexenta Community both seem to beContinue reading pkg.blackdot.be live, omnios.blackdot.be depricated
As previously mentioned I will be deprecating omnios.blackdot.be IPS package repository soonish. Work has started on pkg.blackdot.be, the initial set of packages is up. But most are untested and they need some more love. Once the packages are where I want them to be. I will start rolling packages for omnios also. Check it outContinue reading pkg.blackdot.be enters alpha stages
Just a heads up, somewhere later this year I will turn down omnios.blackdot.be and will bring up pkg.blackdot.be. There I will host a smaller selection of packages for use in SmartOS zones or on OmniOS once the illumos flavor of pkgsrc is installed. Not sure when this will happen because I am currently changing jobs.Continue reading OmniOS package repo eventual deprecation
I wrote a wiki page on how to run a ntp server on SmartOS. Check it out! http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/GPS+backed+NTP+server
As it comes as no surprise I migrated my hosting from ESXi Free to SmartOS a year or so ago. However every major update I spend an hour or so building a new zone from scratch to then switch over. This is tiresome so now I’m working on a bootstrap script that will rebuild theContinue reading SmartOS and updates
Hey Folks, Sorry for not updating more often, but I do not have that much to say. The wiki actually sees more information with me updating that as I go along or discover some small neat things! So please do check out the wiki also! I had page on the wiki about setting up aContinue reading OmniOS and Serial Console
Hey Guys, Lately I’ve been thinking about replacing my ESXi setup I have at OVH with a SmartOS one. I got a cheap kimsufi server for one month to play around. As you know those do not have multiple IP’s/NIC’s. I wrote a little dirty how to on how to setup NAT in the globalContinue reading SmartOS with single IP and NAT
It’s been a while again! Today I will briefly talk about qemu(-kvm) and connecting to it using unix sockets with minicom. Why is this useful and cool? Well you can connect to a linux vm without running a shell and still get the full console experience! (BDS, Solaris,… all should work) I won’t dig deepContinue reading qemu(-kvm) monitor and serial console over sockets with minicom