Excuses, excuses.

@stacksofplates said in Vagrant and KVM:

@scottalanmiller said in Vagrant and KVM:

@stacksofplates said in Vagrant and KVM:

@RamblingBiped said in Vagrant and KVM:

@stacksofplates said in Vagrant and KVM:

What's the advantage to vagrant over just using Ansible with kickstart/preseed config?

From what I understand, Ansible integrates with the VM provisioning done using Vagrant. At the time of VM creation you can define a specific Ansible playbook from withing the Vagrantfile that can completely configure your VM from the base Vagrant image, and kickoff subsequent builds/configurations.

Vagrant alone is usually used directly by developers to build one-off environments that conform to the production environment's constraints. Ansible is most often used as an automation tool for Operations/DevOps to force/maintain uniformity/conformity of configuration in a production environment. Blending the two together aids in simplifying the configuration management of both production and development environments.

Hypothetically, I believe you could do everything you need to do in the absence of Vagrant just using Ansible and Ansible playbooks. I have a hunch that Vagrant allows you to abstract the base VM configuration out of your Ansible Playbooks and configurations and helps reduce the complexity of your playbooks and speeds VM deployment and administration. I'll hopefully be able to confirm that in the not so distant future...

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/guide_vagrant.html

So I don't know anything about preseed stuff, but Im not seeing what Vagrant does that a kickstart file doesn't do. You could just have Ansible tell KVM to build from a kickstart file and even include default config in the post install of the kickstart. Then if anything else was needed Ansible could do it after the VM is created. You could even have Ansible create the kickstart files using the jinja templates.

I think Vagrant handles more platforms

That makes sense. If you have a mix of Debian based and RH based (does it do BSD?) I can see that. I've never played with preseed stuff so Vagrant may very well be much better than that.

yes it does. OpenBSD too.

http://www.vagrantbox.es/

In need a three hour loop of me drinking tequila.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@StrongBad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@StrongBad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Has anyone created a nice open source print monitoring solution in linux?

What kind of monitoring are you looking for?

I want to be able to monitor everything in an invisible client (prints, copies, etc) and generate a report in a central location. Nothing crazy.

Are you just using CUPS? I'm sure CUPS will provide that information somehow, have never tried but it's pretty robust.

No but I wanted to start a dialogue about possible solutions. I need to monitor everything including local printers.

Local printers would be different than print servers. I doubt there is an open source option for local printers, pretty limited scope there. But there might be. If you were using CUPS locally, it would be the same as on a server. But I'm going to guess that even though you are looking for open source, you are not doing open source printing?

Yeah, CUPS is just easy and logs to the normal logging location in most Linux Distributions. I don't think I'd even consider it on Windows tho.

When he said open source, I was hoping he was using open source for the printing, too. Only requires that the print servers be CUPS, not the end clients. But if the printing is local without print servers, that won't work.

Wow, just.... um, damn. That thread is a disaster.

What I've done in situations like this is build my own proxy somewhere to handle getting out and then into wherever I need to go from there.

@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@StrongBad Morning! Idk why but I've been very tired lately. Same amount of sleep that I normally get.

Just because your sleeping the same amount of time, doesn't mean your body is getting the same type of sleep you need. I found a Zeo band on ebay about a year back, sadly the things aren't produced anymore. Great info on your sleep patterns. https://www.grc.com/zeo.htm

Hrm. That is a good idea. I should really analyze that and try to find a solution.

There is a lot of research about what sleep cycle to wake up in. It the same concept that says a 15-20 minute nap will actually leave you more refreshed than longer ones. (Unless they fall back into the same sleep cycle.)

The only real way to get good sleep is to go to bed and get up around the same time. Set your alarm, see how you feel, and start working backwards (or forwards) until you feel freshed.

For me, it's not possible, but a lot of people swear by it.

Or not use an alarm and just wake up when ready.

Hopefully things are set to Latin text!

@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The only real way to get good sleep is to go to bed and get up around the same time.

More fall to sleep than go to bed. Go to bed and lay there awake and then the alarm is at the wrong cycle.

@IRJ thanks

http://techrights.org/2017/02/05/patent-bubble-strategy/

Patent trolls are starting to lose!

If you have Windows on a normal PC, you use this one:

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.2/VirtualBox-5.1.2-108956-Win.exe

That's definitely a weird question. He's clearly a sales guy, I'm guessing that that is not his name nor his picture.

What about actual Fail2Ban?

https://wqweto.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/how-to-use-fail2ban-with-terminal-servers-rdsh-farm/

I've not done this, but looks possible.

People are joining quickly this week. Greetings @recoil

Do you just need normal, every day hosting? How could you do it yourself and not have it cost more? One hour of your time is a year's worth of hosting.

http://reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/5vr3tz/dungeon_master_lego_set_is_now_being_officially/

What about someone like RingCentral that charges per user?

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I was asked to install ESXi on a server today. I get in and it's a Dell Poweredge 2800. Now I have to find a link to download version 3.5 and see if it even supports vm replication

As in ESX 3.5?

They show up quickly. We're the logs pretty regular before the change?