Cloud Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Kubernetes, KOPS

infrastructure

Are you production ready? Going live!

Releasing a brand new IT project or introducing a major change to an existing IT system is usually a challenge. Such tasks require careful planning and preparation. Successful release may have a big, positive impact on the organisation. A release which results in unstable, flakey or unavailable system can negatively impact reputation, sales, performance of the organisation and so on. Read More ›

infrastructure

Out of disk space in KVM guest – easy to increase

If you are running your VMs on KVM and badly need to increase available disk space on one of the VMs there is a good news, it’s super easy. If your guest instances are using LVM then whole process becomes pretty much seamless. Read More ›

infrastructure

Vagrant and Puppet: testing and prototyping infrastructure

In this post I’m going to show you how to provision multiple VMs with Vagrant and Puppet. This post is useful for your if you either want to learn Puppet in safe environment or already running Puppet in production and would like to learn how to test it before applying changes or new modules to production. Read More ›

infrastructure

Provisioning multi-VM infrastructures with Vagrant and shell provisioner

There are different ways of creating virtual machines (VM) for either dev, qa or production environments. If you need to create one-off VM, doing it manually with VirtualBox, KVM or any other virtualization software is pretty straight forward. Read More ›