Blackdot.be

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 my […]

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 be […]

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 out […]

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. […]

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 the […]

Bryan Cantrill has some interesting thoughts about the last year. Very much worth your time to read his blog entry 2014 in review: Docker rising. I also get a mention which came as a huge surprise and honer! Happy 2015 everyone.

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 global […]

I’ve been busy lately with various things. Can’t give a detailed update about it for now. I have been slowly working my way through parsing my notes from my NAS installation and pulling useful snippets out of it. This was made more difficult due to my servers being offline due to a faulty 3-port NIC. […]

While on Linux you sometimes have to pick between apples and pears (Oranges being just a bit too different). Picking an Illumos distribution is more like picking dark or brown chocolate. I’m currently using OpenIndiana and I’m overall very happy with it. However I have some issues with OI, being that KVM is more or […]