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We’re going to set up automated backups for a vCenter which we were forced to rebuild over the winter break because the unexpected reboot of the file server hosting the iSCSI datastore backing the vCenter’s disk drive caused unrecoverable database corruption, and we had no backups. Log into your TrueNAS server via its web interface, e.g. https://nas.nono.io Browse to “Services” Start FTP (by toggling the “Running” slider) and configure it to start automatically Remember to start the FTP service and configure it to start automatically....

Concourse CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) can create multi-platform Docker images. This blog post describes how. A multi-platform docker image is one that contains “variants for different architectures”. Docker images are often created for a single architecture (“instruction set architecture” or “ISA”), typically Intel’s/AMD’s x86-64, but with the advent of ARM64-based offerings such as AWS’s Graviton and Apple’s M1/M2, It’s becoming more common to build multi-platform images to avoid the heavy emulation performance penalty (typically >10x) when running an image on a different architecture....

Quickstart First, create your key and your CSR (Certificate Signing Request). In the following example, we are creating a CSR for our vCenter host, “vcenter-80.nono.io”: CN=vcenter-80.nono.io # "CN" is the abbreviation for "Common Name" openssl genrsa -out $CN.key 3072 openssl req \ -new \ -key $CN.key \ -out $CN.csr \ -sha256 \ -subj "/C=US/ST=California/L=San Francisco/O=nono.io/OU=homelab/CN=${CN}/emailAddress=brian.cunnie@gmail.com" \ -config <(cat <<EOF [ req ] distinguished_name = req_distinguished_name req_extensions = req_ext [ req_distinguished_name ] [ req_ext ] subjectAltName = @alt_names [alt_names] DNS....

Network Diagram. We want to maximize the throughput from the blue box (the client) to the green box (HAProxy) Summary We were able to push through almost 450 MB/sec through HAProxy (which terminated our SSL) by carefully matching our 4-core HAProxy with 2 x 4-core Gorouters (which were on a much slower ESXi host). Results Bandwidth MB/second Configuration 201.27MB 1 HAProxy: 1 vCPU 136.47MB 1 HAProxy: 2 vCPUs 270.56MB 2 Gorouters: 1 vCPU 350....

The Cloud Foundry Acceptance Tests are the gold standard to test the proper functioning of your Cloud Foundry deployment. This guide tells you how to run them. When in doubt, refer to the README. Quick Start cd ~/workspace/ git clone git@github.com:cloudfoundry/cf-acceptance-tests.git cd cf-acceptance-tests . ./.envrc bin/update_submodules cp example-cats-config.json cats-config.json export CONFIG=cats-config.json cf api api.cf.nono.io # or whatever your Cloud Foundry's API endpoint is cf login -u admin cf create-space -o system system # don't worry if it's already created cf t -o system -s system cf enable-feature-flag diego_docker # necessary if you're running the Docker tests (`"include_docker": true`) Let’s configure our cats-config....