Separation Anxiety: A Tutorial for Isolating Your System with Linux Namespaces

2017-02-06 18 min read GuestPost Linux Vurtualization

With the advent of tools like Docker, Linux Containers, and others, it has become super easy to isolate Linux processes into their own little system environments. This makes it possible to run a whole range of applications on a single real Linux machine and ensure no two of them can interfere with each other, without having to resort to using virtual machines. These tools have been a huge boon to PaaS providers. But what exactly happens under the hood?

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ansible with docker dynamic inventory

2017-01-09 2 min read Bash Fedora Vurtualization

So, I have a few dockers. Every now and then I want to run some command on all of them. Doing ‘docker exec’ is tiresome. I found this neat solution with ansible that I thought I should share with you.

To get started, you need to have the “docker.py” script. This script will be used as python script inventory for ansible. So, use the following command and get the script:

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supernova – manage multiple openstack environment

2016-08-01 1 min read Vurtualization

supernova is an easy to use tool that helps manage multiple openstack environments.

Details –

Name        : supernova
Arch        : noarch
Epoch       : 0
Version     : 2.2.0
Release     : 2.fc24
Size        : 62 k
Repo        : @System
From repo   : fedora
Summary     : Use novaclient with multiple OpenStack nova environments the easy way
URL         : https://github.com/major/supernova
License     : ASL 2.0
Description : supernova manages multiple nova environments without sourcing
novarc files or mucking with environment variables.

To get started, start with installing supernova with

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Install virtual machines in one line

2016-07-25 1 min read Vurtualization

To install a VM from command line, you can use the following command. Change the required parameters as need but you need to change at-least CDROM iso image and disk-path.

virt-install \
    -n myVM \
    --description "Test VM" \
    --os-type=Linux \
        --os-variant=centos7 \
        --ram=2048 \
        --vcpus=2 \
        --disk path=./myVM.img,bus=virtio,size=10 \
        --graphics none \
        --cdrom  <Image installtion CDROM>.iso \
        --net user

Python script to manage virtual machines with python API for libvirt.

2016-07-04 4 min read Vurtualization

Most of times I use virt-manager to manage VMs but sometimes, I have to manage VMs on other hosts over ssh when connected over VPN or while I am working remotely. GUI like virt-manager thus becomes slow, and hence I like to use cli commands and nothing is better than virsh. But here is simple script that I use sometimes to manage the VMs with CLI based menu. Hope you find it useful.

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virsh – show ip address of all running VMs

2016-02-01 1 min read Fedora Learning Vurtualization

If you are using the libvirt and associated tools, then you must be aware about virt-manager. However this being a GUI tools, it is not possible to always use this. “virsh” is a good option for this.

To start with, if you need to know all the VMs all the running VMs, then you can use (to only view the names):

virsh list --name

Extending this to make it more useful is the case if you need to know the IP address for the running VMs. Here is a simple code that you can put in alias or function that can be used to get the IP address of the running VM’s.

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