My home server is now fully virtualized. When I ssh home I reach "Outland", an OpenVz container. Outland has limited access to the rest of my home network, but isn't completely isolated. I've taken the pragmatic view that allowing some access further "in" is ok too, though there's a two ...
Over the years I've alternated between development and operations several times, often with severely blurred lines (read: startup where hiring ops people was far down the list of priorities; as well as Yahoo, where applications ops work was largely done by developers). Over the last two years the operational side has ...
I was setting up Apache on OpenVZ earlier today, and ran into a problem with enabling SSL. Apache would refuse to start, and I'd see this in the error log:
[Sat May 24 07:48:10 2008] [warn] Init: PRNG still contains insufficient entropy! [Sat May 24 07:48:10 2008] [error] Init: ...
If you're using OpenVz, you owe it to yourself to take a look at /proc/user_beancounters every now and again. Just today at work we were having bizarre problems with one of the containers:
Everything would seemingly work fine. Then the load would spike from 0.something to 150+ in less than a ...
At Edgeio we had a very complex software system. It was NOT a typical small little LAMP setup or little Rails setup. The web app was the simple piece. The complex pieces were things like processing 3 million+ blog feeds every days, and building a search engine and getting it ...
There is something oddly pleasurable in a zen kind of way to be able to log into an OpenVz container, and see a process list like this:
root@ldap:~# pstree init-+-apache2---apache2 |-cron |-slapd---3*[{slapd}] |-syslogd `-vzctl---bash---pstree This is everything that's running in our new OpenLDAP container at work, including Apache ...