Category Cloud
Installing Panamax on CoreOS (Quick Note)
Panamax can install in Virtual box but can also install directly on CoreOS instances. The main site does not include direct CoreOS installs as part of the standard installation. It is however explained on the wiki. Here are the commands I used (stealing from my previous sequence of commands for cygwin). core@coreos$ mkdir ~/.panamax core@coreos$ cd ~/.panamax core@coreos$ curl […]
Cloud and High Availability Blog Post (Quick Note)
There was a recent Cloud Foundry post talking about different levels of High Availability (HA) support in different PaaS offerings. Of course their solution was great and the competitor’s was not. It came across pretty salesy upon first read. I clicked through to another post on the four levels of HA they support. That came across a […]
Thoughts on Developing Docker Images (Quick Note)
In Optimizing Docker Images there is a discussion on saving disk space when developing images. This is good stuff to be aware of. But I think there is another reason to consider reducing the number of commands in a Dockerfile which is to help with testing during development. I am coming to the personal opinion that […]
Cygwin TERM type and ssh-ing to Linux (quick note)
I have been playing with Docker recently from my Windows based laptop. This means a lot more ssh-ing around the place than normal. Using Cygwin has been a help for consistency (shell scripts work on both), but when I ssh in, the TERM variable is set to “cygwin” which the Linux instances I was using does not understand. I […]
Playing with Docker, CoreOS and Panamax on Windows
Panamax got announced today as a Human Friendly way to manage Docker. If you follow the links in the article you can find installation instructions for Mac OS and Ubuntu pretty easily. But I run Windows on my laptop. Here is how I got it going in case useful to anyone else. I had Vagrant, Docker, and […]
Docker Containers – Better and Faster Virtualization
Last post I looked at Vagrant. This post I look at Docker. I started dubious about a Linux only solution, but the more I looked, the more I liked. I think Docker will be big. Docker Docker allows you to define light weight application containers based on Linux cgroups (controller groups). For example, you might […]
Vagrant Cloud Deployment First Impressions with OpenStack
Vagrant describes itself as a tool to create VM based development environments, allowing it to be shared between developers. By default it sets up a local VirtualBox instance, although through an extensible set of providers it can also be used to create VMs in various clouds. eBay internally has a private cloud based on OpenStack. This article […]
Alan Kent's Blog 