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Oct/14

Managing Servers On The Go With Android

Filed Under Infrastructure, Linux, Mobile Phone at 13th October 2014 0:01 by

Overview Since the ye ol’ days I have been self hosting one thing or another at first from a repurposed family computer to now using cloud infrastructure like Linode and Digital Ocean. I’m not a sys admin by day (and … Continue reading →

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Oct/14

BitTorrent Sync On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux, Software at 6th October 2014 0:01 by

Overview BitTorrent Sync or BT Sync uses BitTorrent technology to facilitate peer to peer file synchronization. It allows almost true peer to peer setup without a central server (except for a tracker). Clients can come on and offline as an … Continue reading →

29

Sep/14

MySQL Server 5.6 512MB RAM

Filed Under Linux at 29th September 2014 0:01 by

Overview Ubuntu 14.04 added MySQL 5.6 to the official repository but it turns out installing it on anything less than 1GB RAM is pretty difficult. Disable Service Startup It is necessary to disable service startup after an install to prevent … Continue reading →

22

Sep/14

Removing Passphrase From SSL Key

Filed Under Linux at 22nd September 2014 0:01 by

It’s good practice to password protect any encryption keys but it’s not always practicle to do so. So in doing this it degrades security for convenience. Create a copy to backup the key in case something goes wrong: cp my.key … Continue reading →

15

Sep/14

Ubuntu 14.04: add-apt-repository – command not found

Filed Under Linux at 15th September 2014 0:01 by

The tradational command to a PPA repository was to use add-apt-repository but in 14.04 the command is not always part of the default OS install. To fix this just install software-properties-common python-software-properties sudo apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties add-apt-repository not found

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Sep/14

Installing Latest Docker Server On Ubuntu 14.04

Filed Under Linux, Software at 8th September 2014 0:01 by

Overview Docker is becoming a very popular software container for Linux based deployments. It allows software to be wrapped into containers and deployed onto the server. The container is “jailed” so that it’s processes cannot interfer with others (a sandboxing … Continue reading →

01

Sep/14

Chef Dependency Hell

Filed Under Software at 1st September 2014 0:01 by

I’ve been playing around with Chef in conjunction with Vagrant and it’s become very obvious the lack of dependency management. Chef cookbooks has a metadata.rb which has a dependency directive to allow users to see what the cookbook relies on. … Continue reading →

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Aug/14

Docker On DigitalOcean Cannot Resolve Hostnames

Filed Under Linux at 25th August 2014 0:01 by

Overview I encountered an issue where during the build of my Docker container it was not able to get a response back during an apt-get update command. It turns out it was unable to resolve the DNS entries because of … Continue reading →