Category Archives: DataCenter

#DRBD: Gracious role switching of live sites configured with DRBD replication

By | March 6, 2017

This is a follow up tutorial on the DRBD replication posts about gracious role switching of live sites configured with DRBD replication. More than a year ago I described in a long tutorial how to use DRBD in a real production environment and the challenges associated to it. See: DRBD based disk replication of a… Read More: #DRBD: Gracious role switching of live sites configured with DRBD… »

Docker: Install a Nexus Raw Repository for Docker-compose files

By | December 14, 2016

This is a continuation of the post Install a Nexus Repository. In the following I will describe how to deploy a raw maven repository for the docker-compose files, docker make files and other text files. This repository will be used as the main entry point to the docker repository. STEP 1: Create a raw repository… Read More: Docker: Install a Nexus Raw Repository for Docker-compose files »

#Docker: Install a #Nexus Repository

By | May 26, 2017

I had the task to find a way to store centrally docker containers of enterprise applications. The following constraints had to be met: – the containers should be used for QA and training by people who do not need to know the details of deploying complicated enterprise application environments. Docker-compose files will be used to… Read More: #Docker: Install a #Nexus Repository »

IT Traveller: Failed airport technology

By | March 11, 2017

I travel quite often across the world for job related purposes. Being an IT guy that does servers installations, develops and deploys enterprise software across the world I am always noticing everyting that is IT related. It is always fun to see failed tech in airports I transit or in hotels where I stay. Failed… Read More: IT Traveller: Failed airport technology »

Datacenter: Recover Owncloud and WordPress from a Cold Backup

By | February 9, 2017

Sometimes you test your best practice procedures the hard way. A failure that messed up with my grub (yes you can manage to break grub even in a RAID1 setup) followed by a failed Fedora update forced me to do a clean Fedora 25 installation. STEP 1: Cold Backup of all partitions of interest Because… Read More: Datacenter: Recover Owncloud and WordPress from a Cold Backup »

Docker: Orchestrate multiple containers with docker-compose

By | November 8, 2016

In an enterprise environment we usually separate the components in independent containers: – a database container – a business application container – a web-layer application container – a load balancing layer container/containers – etc. When running our environment with docker and if the environment consist of something more than some simple tests, at some point… Read More: Docker: Orchestrate multiple containers with docker-compose »

#Docker: Create a custom #Glassfish based enterprise application docker image

By | March 6, 2017

[paypal_donation_button] In the following post I am going to describe how to create a custom docker image that contains the following: – Glassfish Application Server – Java JDK 1.8 – A custom deployed EJB 3.1 Application In connection with this a Postgres docker image from which we start a container with a certain database name… Read More: #Docker: Create a custom #Glassfish based enterprise application docker image »