As I didn’t get chance to have a play with the pre-release CentOS 7.0 builds I decided to wait until DigitalOcean↗ lauched their image↗ which they did just in time for the weekend. Check the IP Address First thing I did was type in ifconfig and got ….. First play with CentOS 7.0 1/5 [ - r b o a o s t h @ : s e i r f v c e o r n f ~ i ] g # : i c f o c m o m n a f n i d g n o t f o u n d ….. not a good start, have dabbled with a Fedora↗ when I installed OpenShift I remembered about the ip command ….. ...

I have been missing in action for a while, busy with work and other “stuff”. Since I last posted ….. Docker 1.0 has been released.↗ CentOS↗ 7 has been released↗ . I have updated the sites theme again to use So Simple↗ . Aphex Twin’s Long Lost Caustic Window LP was released.↗ Also new albums from Neil Finn↗ , Anathema↗ and Crippled Black Phoenix↗ have all been released. I have written a blog post for work↗ on MFA in AWS. ….. suppose I had better make more of an effort to post now that everything has caught up. ...

Having ran a local copy of OpenShift Origin↗ using VirtualBox↗ I decided to have a go at running it on a Digital Ocean↗ Droplet running CentOS 6.5. This should be easy as there is an installer↗ which claims; You’re one shell command away from deploying your own Platform as a Service. Well, sort of, after a few failed installs I finally managed it using the following (this assumes you are running a clean and minimal CentOS 6.5 installation) ...

I did a clean installation of my laptop this weekend, rather than go through the list of apps I had installed and do a manual installation of each one using the “Download and drag” method I decided to use Cask↗ . Cask is a Homebrew↗ package which automates to the download and install part. Here is pretty much my entire installation process …. Cask 1/1 r b b b b b b b b b b b u r r r r r r r r r r r b e e e e e e e e e e e y w w w w w w w w w w w - d i c c c c c c c c c e o n a a a a a a a a a c s s s s s s s s s s “ t t k k k k k k k k k $ o a ( r l i i i i i i i i i c l n n n n n n n n n u s s s s s s s s s r c t t t t t t t t t l a a a a a a a a a a s l l l l l l l l l - k l l l l l l l l l f r s o g d g s g s l v s S o o r o u i p i i k L m o o b t o b r y g p g l h t r t p h c l b l i u i e u e t a e o e m b f o a t s - x - e y f l p k c d - f b s / h r t i o : b r i e c x / r o v x e / e m e t r w e a - w c . a g s i k t h u b . c o m / H o m e b r e w / h o m e b r e w / g o / i n s t a l l ) " The only downside is that it installs the packages into the users Application directory which set my OCD off, it was quickly remedied though by simply moving the link once I had installed everything I needed. ...

Sysdig↗ looks like it could be a useful addition to a sysadmins list of tools, it is described as; Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Think of it as strace + tcpdump + lsof + awesome sauce. With a little Lua cherry on top. It’s easy to install↗ …. Sysdig 1/1 c u r l - s h t t p s : / / s 3 . a m a z o n a w s . c o m / d o w n l o a d . d r a i o s . c o m / s t a b l e / i n s t a l l - s y s d i g | s u d o b a s h …. and even easier to run …. ...

I had registered the domain DevOps-SysAdm.in↗ with the intention of creating a second Jekyll based site which was going to be a link dump for stuff. Instead I decided to use Tumblr↗ as that seemed alot less hassle. So go on, head over & follow↗ . Also, you can submit stuff↗

Since I have been playing with Docker for the past few weeks I have had more servers on-line. I don’t have a static IP address at home so while I have a jump host setup I found I was still being port scanned and brute forced. I only caught a sniff of it in the logs while looking at another problem, even though password authentication is disabled and I only use keys I decided install Fail2Ban↗ to start blocking people, just in-case. As I use Puppet↗ I installed a module and enabled it. Since then I have been flooded with emails !!! ...

Been listening to some old albums this past week, some I haven’t heard for years, such as …. Jellyfish — Bellybutton↗ The Wannadies — Be a Girl↗ Spacehog — Resident Alien↗ https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:album:6vOmA5zWeFeKvuRBxaO59↗ …. think I will revisit some more this week.