If you ever need to upgrade an old CentOS server to another “less” old version
Category: Operating Systems
Linux System Administration
Running containers with SystemD-nspawn
Linux’s own built-in container, acts as a chroot on steroids
Hardening Grub
In accordance with CIS Distribution Independent Linux Benchmark v2.0.0, chapter: 1.4.2
Protect your filesystem integrity
In accordance with CIS Distribution Independent Linux Benchmark v2.0.0, chapter: 1.3.1
Linux Container API v4.0
The simple hypervisor for Linux Containers
Shared hosting vs. Containerized hosting
Running a classic web hosting environment with virtual hosts and chroot isolation has been the de facto standard for a long time. Even when using chroot all sites still share the same namespaces for network, users and processes. The Linux kernel has built in support for a set of features called LXC (Linux Containers) which… Continue reading Shared hosting vs. Containerized hosting
Moving in with Google
Our first LXC-Server hosted on the Google Cloud Platform
Autoload .ovpn on boot
Automation is what makes it possible to sit on the back porch chilling instead of manually running tasks
Better-, Butter-, B-tree Filesystem (btrfs)
My standard Linux server setup usually consists of a software raid1 with two disks syncing. The problem with traditional raid, both software and hardware raid, is that it is only useful if one of your drives completely dies. If you experience Silent Data Corruption or if your drive goes bad you might end up with… Continue reading Better-, Butter-, B-tree Filesystem (btrfs)
LXC 2.x Web GUI
LXC is an abbreviation for “Linux Containers“ which is a feature in the linux kernel, it allows you to install multiple Linux installations running on the same kernel. It’s kind of like chroot but much more powerful as it allows for process and network isolation. I’ve seen that there is a fancy web GUI for… Continue reading LXC 2.x Web GUI