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Consul Ambassador Pattern

Did I mention I love Open-Source software? I do - I really do! :) Using a pull request on Consul, I get closer to a nice setup: github isse

So what I am talking about here? As you readers should already know I use Consul as the backend for my service/node discovery stuff and user related topics.

FOSDEM #2 - IPoIB

This blob post goes through the different methods of connecting an HPC cluster in a box (within docker container) so that the network performance is worth the effort and all containers are addressable. It's going to talk about VXLAN, MACLAN and some pipework to glue them together.

Hello Sensu

Even though I like Consul a lot (it is the foundation of my stacks in terms of service/node discovery) it's most likely not a replacement for a monitoring framework with notification handlers, distributed checks and a nice dashboard.

I assume that most of the readers have used NAGIOS at some point and decide to hate-love it. It works, but only kinda... :)

Simple CEPH container with CEPH-fuse clients

Since I like to play around with Docker volumes one day, I have to get used to CEPH somehow. :)

I started by creating a single container that hosts all ceph-daemons needed and which pushes the necessary information to consuls key/value store: qnib/ceph-mono.

A little stack to demonstrate it could be find - as usual - in my stack repository: