I have been working on creating a bunch of debootstrap images lately, and I ended up doing a whole bunch of work creating tarballs and did it wrong. So I took the time to sort out an easy way to fix them all with two commands. The Core of My…
SSH Hop Through Multiple Hosts
I frequently need to ssh through multiple hosts to get to a destination. Frankly this is not really a problem, but there is a simpler way, and I like simpler. This is a really straight forward article, not a lot of explanation is really necessary. Sometimes I need to use…
Linux-KVM: Converting Raw Disk Images to LVM Logical Volumes Redux
This really is an update to my previous article “Linux-KVM: Converting Raw Disk Images to LVM Logical Volumes“, but the process is significantly different and thus requires more explaining than a simple inline update would do it justice. Now the big flaw with my first article was that by using…
Using Curl to Interact with Resource Records in Rackspace Cloud DNS
In this article we will be using curl to interact with Rackspace’s Cloud DNS to manipulate resource records in zones which already exist. For details on how to use curl against Rackspace’s Cloud DNS API please see part one in this series “Using Curl to Access Rackspace Cloud DNS” in…
Using Curl to Interact with Zones in Rackspace Cloud DNS
In my previous post “Using Curl to Access Rackspace Cloud DNS” we documented the basics of authenticating with the Rackspace Cloud for use with the Beta DNS service they offer, as well as doing basic queries against this service. Today we are going to focus on creating our first domain,…