I have two machines beyond the Laptop on which I am currently typing this article. I want to manage them from my workstation using Ansible. All three machines are running Fedora 25 Workstation.
Installing and Running Ansible on Fedora 25
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Author Archives: Adam Young
Barely Functional Keystone Deployment with Docker
My eventual goal is to deploy Keystone using Kubernetes. However, I want to understand things from the lowest level on up. Since Kubernetes will be driving Docker for my deployment, I wanted to get things working for a single node Docker deployment before I move on to Kubernetes. As such, you’ll notice I took a few short cuts. Mostly, these involve configuration changes. Since I will need to use Kubernetes for deployment and configuration, I’ll postpone doing it right until I get to that layer. With that caveat, let’s begin.
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Connecting to MariaDB with a network configuration Docker
Since the “link” directive has been deprecated, I was wondering how to connect to a mariadb instance on a non-default network when both the database and the monitor are running is separate networks. Here is what I got:
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Running GUI Applications in a container with SELinux
As I work more and more with containers, I find myself wanting to make more use of them to segregate running third party apps. Taking the lead of Jessie Frazelle I figured I would try to run the Minecraft client in a Container on Fedora 25. As expected, it was a learning experience, but I got it. Here’s the summary:
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Reimagining the Saxophone
During a trip to Manhattan last winter (Jan 2016 or so) I heard some buskers in Union Square station making sounds that were at once familiar and new.
Continue readingRunning SAS University Edition on Fedora 25
My Wife is a statistician. Over the course of her career, she’s done a lot of work coding in SAS, and, due to the expense of licensing, I’ve never been able to run that code myself. So, when I heard about SAS having a free version, I figured I would download it and have a look, maybe see if I could run something.
Like many companies, SAS went the route of shipping a virtual appliance. They chose to use Virtual Box as the virtualization platform. However, when I tried to install and run the VM in virtual box, I found that the mechanism used to build the Virtual Box specific module for the Linux Kernel, the build assumption were not met, and the VM would not run.
Instead of trying to fix that situation, I investigated the possibility of running the virtual appliance via libvirt on my Fedora systems already installed and configured kvm setup. Turns out it was pretty simple.
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Exploring long JSON files with jq
The JSON file format is used for marshalling data in lots of different applications. If you are new to an application, and don’t know the data, it might be hard to visually parse the JSON and understand what you are seeing. The jq command line utility can help make it easier to scope in to a section of the file. This is a starting point.
Continue readingA Ray in a Minecraft Mod
I want to shoot a ray. And not just parallel to one of the axis of the cartesion coordinate system. I want to look in a direction and shoot a ray in that direction. I want to be able to shoot aray in any direction and walk on it. Like certain ice based superheros. And now I can do that.
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Keystone Development Bootstrap with Service Catalog
My Last post showed how to get a working Keystone server. Or did it.
$ openstack service list The service catalog is empty.
Turns out, to do most things with Keystone, you need a service catalog, and I didn’t have one defined. To fix it, rerun bootstrap with a few more options.
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Keystone development server on Fedora 25
While Unit tests are essential to development, I often want to check the complete flow of a feature against a running keystone server as well. I recently upgraded to Fedora 25, and had to reset my environment. Here is how I set up for development.
Update: turns out there is more.