UPDATE 2017-06-07: Added info about secure connections You might have heard of awesome Gitlab and it’s builtin CI. Also, Docker might ring some bells. And Gitlab loves Docker. I’m using Gitlab CI with Docker for a long time now, even before Gitlab included the container registry. Playing around with Swarm some months ago immediately made me want to combine all of them. The whole Kubernetes thing is pretty cool but sometimes just too much. Read more

As an experienced linux only user, i could have ignored the latest waves of crypto malware. But i’m also taking care of some people being forced to use Windows and Office and so on. Can’t say enough: Backup! Backup! Backup! If your happily using ZFS based sytems with high snapshot rate like me, you might be quite relaxed about backup because of read-only snapshots. But i also want to get noticed, when some bogus I/O starts on these servers. Read more

If you’re using postfix as mail server or relay for your mails (e.g. log mails, …) you might want to encrypt them. Zeyple does!

This post is just combining the information from Ubuntu 16.04 Root on ZFS and Encrypted ZFS Ubuntu Installation. First, start up your target machine using an Ubuntu Live ISO. When you’ll see the desktop, just press Ctrl + Alt + F1 and login with ubuntu and blank password. Let’s prepare the system for SSH, as things are much easier there. You can also skip this and do things locally, of course. Read more

Today i was stumbling upon ZFS in Docker Docs. The ZFS on Linux (ZoL) port is healthy and maturing. However, at this point in time it is not recommended to use the zfs Docker storage driver for production use unless you have substantial experience with ZFS on Linux. I do have, so let’s try things out. I’m not installting any Ubuntu ZFS thingy, just grabbed one of my lab Proxmox installations with ZFS builtin. Read more