Sometimes we need to release our local Virtual Machines (VMs) into the cloud here’s how: First we need to add some confirguration to the local
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Masterless Puppet: Connecting a Puppet agent to a central git repo
Step-by-step guide wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppet5-release-xenial.deb sudo dpkg -i puppet5-release-xenial.deb sudo apt update sudo apt install puppet-agent sudo vim /etc/environment add /opt/puppetlabs/bin to PATH source environment sudo
How do I add swap space to a Linux system
To add 1GB of swap to your server, for example, follow these steps: Create the file to be used for swap. sudo fallocate -l 1G
Backing up of KVMs with BorgBackup and BlockFuse Pt. 2
This is part 2 of a 2 part series, if you have not read part one yet you can do so here: Backing up of
Backing up of KVMs with BorgBackup and BlockFuse Pt. 1
We use a lot of Virtual Machines (VM) to run ours infrastructure, these are on multiple host machines running Logical Volume Management (LVM) with each
Read Only IAM policy for AWS S3
Had a little difficulty getting the right setting to restrict access to read only on several folders in an AWS S3 bucket. Here is the
Installing Duplicati
Here are the steps I followed to install Duplicati on a Ubuntu 16.04 system: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mono-devel wget https://updates.duplicati.com/beta/duplicati_2.0.3.3-1_all.deb sudo dpkg
Connecting to Duplicati Remotely
Whilst using Duplicati on a headless VM server I had issues finding how I could connect to the GUI remotely. Here are the steps I