Cloudinfrastack Team Member – Page 3 – Cloud, storage or DevOps?

6. 6. 201911. 4. 2023

Infrastructure As Code

Infrastructure as code is a way to maintain infrastructure by automated processes and minimize human effort needed to configure anything from physical baremetals to services running on many virtual hosts. There are 2 ways to do this.

31. 5. 201911. 4. 2023

Overview of Ceph

Since our infrastructure is powered by Openstack, Cinder takes care of exposing our block devices to virtual machines. And because we value open source software, we use Ceph as the storage backend (as well as LVM in certain setups).

3. 5. 201911. 4. 2023

Automating Builds of Prometheus Exporters via Jenkins Pipeline

Let’s say you have just finished installing Prometheus, full of enthusiasm you want to take another step, create the structure of exporters and sort out from which exact services you want to harvest metrics.

24. 4. 20196. 4. 2023

Useful Golang Packages (aka What the Default Ones Got Wrong)

Golang, as a very ops/admin focused language, has a huge community and thus a lot of useful packages that can help us in the everyday development regarding monitoring, graphing, and automatization.

12. 4. 201918. 4. 2023

Basic monitoring of Elasticsearch cluster with Prometheus and Grafana

Sometimes we are all in need of doing some quick and basic setup to monitor our key services. In these cases, this super simple cheatsheet comes into play.

30. 3. 201918. 4. 2023

Prometheus

Prometheus is an open-source system monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its release in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active community. It is developed as an open project, independent of any company or organization.

29. 3. 201911. 4. 2023

The Joys of LDAP

We are currently managing over 2000 virtual machines, hundreds of bare metals, tens of services, and tens of user accounts. You can imagine how difficult it was to add or change existing users (change permission, access, ssh keys, and so on).