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Vagrant
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Using a VM within Linux for programming?
You can give Vagrant a go (https://www.vagrantup.com). It is pretty handy for spinning up/down development VMs without even leaving your IDE.
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How do hosting companies immediately create vm right after purchasing one?
Vagrant is a popular tool for launching virtual machines on your local desktop. https://www.vagrantup.com/
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Installing Rust in a Raspberry Pi 3A+
And, for the record, if you ever need to do something cross falls down on and Docker isn't suited to (eg. some of my sites are on a shared webhost that uses FreeBSD), the simplest way I've found is to use Vagrant with a script like this to run inside Vagrant to copy the project in, trigger a build, and then copy the binary out.
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Good Resources For Learning Intermediate and Advanced Linux Skills?
Have a look at vagrant to spin up VMs quickly, then use 'em to do stuff like configure a salt environment - you could incorporate cron jobs here ;)
- Which technologies are usually overkill for a solo developer?
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Virtualbox 7.0.4 kickstart issue
I was building a new version of YugabyteDB vagrant box with packer and virtual box. Because we (Yugabyte) have a new preview release out.
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How would you set up your work laptop differently if you had to do it again?
I also suggest having a look at Vagrant (https://www.vagrantup.com/) for learning kind of work. It makes running isolated env easy and clean.
- Is installing Linux as a second OS on a new PC worth it?
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How to choose the right API Gateway
Another point to consider is how difficult is it to install the API Gateway or redeploy the gateway when changes are made. Check what installation options are offered. Most modern API Gateways can be installed in many different ways(Package based, Docker, Helm, RPM) in any environment (Linux, Windows, macOS). For example, one of the biggest advantages of Kong is its wide range of installation choices, with pre-made containers such as Docker and Vagrant so you can get a deployment running quickly.
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From WampServer, to Vagrant, to QEMU
Laravel wanted to make the entire PHP development process as seamless as possible. At the time, Laravel achieved this with Laravel Homestead, apre-packaged Vagrant box. Everything you would need would be bundled into a virtual machine, nice and neat, away from your OS. And this was how I was introduced to Vagrant. A means of packaging virtual machines into a portable format, so you could easily create local development environments. Vagrant worked by using a Vagrantfile to describe the virtual machine you would want to use, how it would be provisioned, the ports you would forward, and the filepaths you would want shared from host to guest. All of these tasks would be handled by the provider, the underlying virtual machine program itself, in my case, VirtualBox. Perhaps the one thing I liked the most about Vagrant, was the ability to provision my machine, clear down if I wanted to and have it back in a clean state for development.
Packer
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auto-provisioning multiple raspberry pi's
Packer is a tool that can be used to build machine images. Basically, it takes a base image, runs a series of steps to provision that image, and then burns a new image. In my workplace we use it heavily to build AWS AMIs. But it has an ARM plugin that looks to be very very suitable for building customised Raspberry Pi images (my quick read of the doco there says it can go ahead and write the final image to an SD card for you too).
- How do hosting companies immediately create vm right after purchasing one?
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Virtualbox 7.0.4 kickstart issue
However, I was unable to build the boxes with packer for some reason. It turned out that this wasn't an easy to fix or obvious issue. In fact, I had to search quite hard to find an answer. I am pretty sure my friend Tim Hall (oracle-base) ran into this issue too. Finally, I found a description of the issue on packer GitHub: Packer 1.8.4 not working with Virtualbox 7.0.4+ #12118.
I was building a new version of YugabyteDB vagrant box with packer and virtual box. Because we (Yugabyte) have a new preview release out.
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Is "development environment as code" a thing?
Packer. https://github.com/hashicorp/packer
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Dinamic Infrastructure
For an AMI build pipeline, have a look at Hashicorp Packer and Ansible if a host is long lived
- A practical approach to structuring Golang applications
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what am I able to do with a Intel Core i2???
Heh, I've been messing more with Nomad & Packer than k8s for my own stuff, I'll say guilty for Ansible though it's useful on its own and with Packer.
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You Don't Need Microservices
Sounds reasonable. Personally, I just try to stay away from k8s until it becomes a requirement. Until then simplest tools are often a good choice for building systems that require less maintenance. That's a per-project decision though.
You do not need Ansible for VMs provisioning - you can bake a VM image that will pull repos and do other preparation stuff. HashiCorp Packer[1] is an good tool for this imo. This applies to bare metal, too, as you can bake ISO or IMG the same way. Stuff that differentiate those systems can be set up with cloud-init or something similar.
Regarding Ansible, it didn't changed much over the years. At least nothing really major like statefulness.
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Installing Fedora Minimal instead of Fedora Workstation on daily driver laptop (?)
Oooh, maybe I'll try it with packer or Foreman (or MaaS, I'm actually setting up MaaS atm...)
What are some alternatives?
oVirt - oVirt website
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
QEMU - Official QEMU mirror. Please see http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.
kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo - A cloud-init datasource for VMware vSphere's GuestInfo interface
Capistrano - Remote multi-server automation tool
Puppet - Server automation framework and application
helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager
Moby - Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
BOSH - Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.