Automatisering van loadbalancers en storage classes met Kubernetes op een private cloud

Another CYSO DevOps related article, this time about implementing ‘missing’ features on a VMware Private Cloud. This post has also been posted to the CYSO blog. De gebruikelijke plek om Kubernetes te installeren is op een Public Cloud. Alle aanbieders ondersteunen een manier om automatisch een cluster uit te rollen, met diepgaande integratie met de […]

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fluentd voor betere applicatie logging

Another CYSO DevOps related article, focusing on better logging from in-house developed applications. This post has also been posted to the CYSO blog. Er zijn een aantal zaken in Software Development die snel complex kunnen worden, waarbij ik persoonlijk data opslag één van de belangrijkere vind. Voor het configureren van (Python) applicaties hebben we al […]

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Creating an OpenStack FreeBSD image

Cyso’s new OpenStack platform (called Fuga.io) is currently undergoing rigorous beta testing by an ever-increasing amount of users. To facilitate them, we’re constantly adding images and operating systems to our library in Horizon. We’ve just released a new beta image for FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE. To give you an understanding in what went into creating this image, […]

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Daemonizing and Upstart

When creating command-line applications, the user is usually present at the terminal to provide commands to the application and read its output. This is called interactive mode. But sometimes, you want to start a long-running program in the background, so it runs while you’re not present. This is called daemon mode, and the programs themselves […]

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SSLv3 and Apache/Nginx

Seeing as there is a minor shitstorm going on about the newly found RC4 and SSLv3 compromise. It has been known that SSLv3 was not secure, but now it seems the time to completely disable it. There are a multitude of ways to disable SSLv3 for Apache and Nginx, but I’ve opted to disable them […]

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Google Drive for Linux – Insync

Recently, my Dropbox has begun to fill up completely, which kind of sucks. Over the years, I’ve taken a liking to using Cloud Storage for various things, even though I was initially quite skeptical and opposed to the concept. As my main OS of choice is Linux nowadays, and Dropbox has had good Linux support […]

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