I have a need in my development environment to easily create/drop mySQL databases and users. Initially I was gonna implement a simple hacky HTTP GET method but was dissuaded by Ben Black from doing so. He suggested I write a proper RESTful interface. Without further ado I present to you dbrestadmin https://github.com/vvuksan/dbrestadmin It is my [...]
There are a number of problems with cron which cause lots of grief for system administrators with big ones being manageability, cron-spam and auditability. To fix some of these issues I have lately started using Jenkins. Jenkins is an open source Continuous Integration server it has lots of features that make it a great cron [...]
There are a number of problems with cron which cause lots of grief for system administrators with big ones being manageability, cron-spam and auditability. To fix some of these issues I have lately started using Jenkins. Jenkins is an open source Continuous Integration server it has lots of features that make it a great cron [...]
I want to address the misconceptions about RRD (Round-Robin Database) that seem to crop up often even among seasoned sysadmins. Complaints can be summarized with these two points RRD doesn’t offer high resolution ie. after about an hour it’s all averages and I want to knows what was the metric value last year at this [...]
I want to address the misconceptions about RRD (Round-Robin Database) that seem to crop up often even among seasoned sysadmins. Complaints can be summarized with these two points RRD doesn’t offer high resolution ie. after about an hour it’s all averages and I want to knows what was the metric value last year at this [...]
I have been a long time fan of Ganglia. Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system initially developed for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. Today Ganglia is being used by some of the largest web properties such as Facebook, Twitter, Etsy, etc. as well as tons of smaller organizations. Some of Ganglia [...]
I have been a long time fan of Ganglia. Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system initially developed for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. Today Ganglia is being used by some of the largest web properties such as Facebook, Twitter, Etsy, etc. as well as tons of smaller organizations. Some of Ganglia [...]
Inspired by Cloudscaling’s Swift-Solo and being excited about being able to create my own cloud I am announcing the Nova-Solo project. Openstack Nova is the Compute portion of the project trying to build open source stack to run Amazon EC2 type service. Nova-Solo is a set of Opscode Chef recipes that allow you to quickly [...]
Inspired by Cloudscaling’s Swift-Solo and being excited about being able to create my own cloud I am announcing the Nova-Solo project. Openstack Nova is the Compute portion of the project trying to build open source stack to run Amazon EC2 type service. Nova-Solo is a set of Opscode Chef recipes that allow you to quickly [...]
Here are slides from the August 3rd, 2010 Boston DevOps meetup where Jeff Buchbinder and I spoke about deployment and other helpful hints
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35757228/Deploying-Yourself-Into-Happiness
Slides have been slightly modified based on …
