In my new role at Keste, I am tasked with staying on the bleeding edge of software release cycles, so that we can be knowledgeable and authoritative about technology when we engage with customers. One of the areas where Keste leads is on Oracle’s Virtualization Offerings. So I will be…
Bash: A Better Way to Sed
So I frequently find myself in a situation where I need to modify files on a fairly programmatic basis, so sed has become a friend of mine for a lot of these situations. So lets start with some basic sed… If I have a file.. And I want to replace…
Bash: Duplicate Logical Volume Configuration for a Volume Group
I recently ran into a situation where I needed to create a large number of Logical Volumes for a server replacement situation. I could have done some manual data input, but why not take the opportunity to quickly write a script to do the hard work for me? For my…
ESX 5: Command Line VM Manipulation
I haven’t been working with ESX for a bit, but while I was I was mostly interacting with it via the command line. Here is a list I had compiled while I was going through that exercise, and since I while be starting a job next week where I will…
Preparing Minimal Images with Debootstrap
Debootstrap gives us a simple and consistent way to cleanly setup machines by installing packages directly into a file system directly from the repos. These have the flexibility of being used across many different kind of machines. Create Directory Structure Here we are just creating the directories into which we…