Oh so many days and nights I have been struggling getting this to run smoothly. There are many guides out there but no one of them is up to date. I have so far experienced all types of errors and
Murano Ubuntu Image – and how to solve git issues
Linux Image At the moment the best way to build a Linux image with Murano agent is to use disk image builder. Disk image builder requires sudo rights The process is quite simple. Let’s assume that you use a directory
Installing Grafana with Graphite and CollectD for sexy metrics.
I’ve been struggling a few days with installation of Graphite and Grafana. But finally it paid of to keep attacking the problem from different angels. Here is a short description of how to manage this. I used a VirtualBox VM
Git and proxy
If you are stuck behind a proxy server and need to get github updates or packages. Try this: git config –global http.proxy %name of your corporate proxy%
CloudForm from Red Hat reaches 3.0.
And with that you can also manage AWS resources. This makes the whole idea of creating hybrids even more close to truth. [pageview url=”http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux/openstack-platform”]
Sync data to S3 with a crontab job.. any linux
In previous post I showed you how easy it is to use S3 as a mounted volume in Ubuntu. But sometimes you just want to sync content of a folder to a bucket in S3.. Here are the steps to
Mount Amazon S3 storage as local filesystem on Ubuntu server
This is probably not best way to “sync” a folder.. but it does the job. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential libfuse-dev fuse-utils libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev mime-support wget http://s3fs.googlecode.com/files/s3fs-1.61.tar.gz tar xzvf s3fs-1.61.tar.gz cd s3fs-1.61/ sudo ./configure sudo make sudo make
Installing Plex Media Server on Ubuntu
Plex is probably best invention after sliced bread.. Its simple enough to install it on basically any appliance or os. Here is the short description of how to install Plex on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon vi /etc/apt/sources.list add
Installing drupal with commons on Ubuntu
This has basically been killing me the last few days, so here I share my experience to save you some time. Please follow these steps sudo tasksel install lamp-server (type down the password for your mysql installation) sudo apt-get
Find out the size of a directory in linux
Sometimes you might want to find out what is eating all space in a certain drive. One way is to do a find for files larger than a specific size: Syntax for RedHat / CentOS / Fedora Linux find {/path/to/directory/} -type