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apparmor aa-logprof hangs, maxes out cpu
Apparmor has always been finicky to get running for me. This is just the latest in the saga. Running Ubuntu Trusty, and following instructions for creating an apparmor nginx profile, I ran into an...
View Articledocker deployment without downtime
Problem You have a container serving traffic on port 80 via an exposed port. You build a new image and want to launch it as a new container. But, you don't want any downtime while the cutover takes...
View Articleinstalling solr on tomcat7
Why Because you can't index text by hand, now can you? Also, I always reference my private gist when I rebuild boxes, so I figured I'd put it out there for the world. Finally, no mortal remembers how...
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Assign a floating (secondary) IP address in AWS VPC
What is a Virtual IP? A Virtual IP (VIP) is a networking pattern which allows an administrator to quickly move and IP address from one server to another with virtually no downtime. Also known as a...
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In high stress admin situations, you don't want to have to click around inside the AWS console to move a VIP from one instance to the other. Instead, you should automate! Here's a quick script which...
View Articleback up gitlab configuration to s3
The gitlab backup instructions are pretty clear on how to how to back up your entire gitlab repo to S3 on a schedule. However, that backup does not include your secrets or configuration. This post...
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