Apt-get error: E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be...
Get Social!I’ve been getting the following error when using apt-get update with Debian Wheezy recently. [crayon-5790d3f40bbcc687045565/] It seems that apt-get only supports HTTP connections by default,...
View ArticleSkip Certificate Checks with Wget
Get Social!This is a reminder for myself more than anything else. I don’t know why the wget developers couldn’t have chosen a switch that’s easier to remember. Anyway, if you haven’t installed or...
View ArticleBasic IPTable Rules
Get Social!Here are some basic IPTable rules to enable essential connectivity from the host. Outbound connectivity such as ping, DNS and HTTP are all enabled, along with inbound SSH. All external...
View ArticleAdd systemd Startup Script For CouchDB
Get Social!Currently, version 2.0 of CouchDB doesn’t come with any form of startup script. I’m sure that as the CouchDB 2 branch becomes more mature and it’s added to the various software repositories...
View ArticleSetting CPU Resource Limits With LXC
Get Social!Linux Container (LXC) management is now often dealt with by LXD, the Canonical lead project built on top of LXC. LXD offers a suite of options for controlling Linux Container resources and...
View ArticleLXC 2.x/ LXD Cheat Sheet
Get Social!Here are some of the most used commands for creating and managing an LXC/ LXD host and containers. It’s assumed that you have a working environment and a privileged SSH connection to the LXC...
View ArticleSetting Memory Resource Limits With LXC
Get Social! Linux Container (LXC) management is now often dealt with by LXD, the Canonical lead project built on top of LXC. LXD offers a suite of options for controlling Linux Container resources...
View ArticleSimple iptables Rules for Ubuntu/ Debian VPS
Get Social!The following iptables rules are are a starting point to add basic firewall security to a public facing server, such as a public VPS. The primary focus is to stop any inbound traffic other...
View ArticleVirgin Media Speeds In Nottingham
Get Social!Somewhat off-topic today, but something that I’ve recorded here to showcase the current state and see if anyone else is getting similar issues. A colleague of mine and I have been measuring...
View ArticleProxmox 5.0 Beta 2 is Now Available
Get Social!The Proxmox VE team have released a new BETA version of their 5.0 branch to the public. Proxmox 5.0 beta 1 was released recently, and now the team have released the 2nd beta fixing numerous...
View ArticleParse Proxmox Web API authentication ticket and the CSRFPreventionToken in Bash
Get Social!The Proxmox Web API can perform any actions available in the front end Web. By implementing a REST API, all commands have been exposed and can be used programatically. The API is secured...
View ArticleGetting Started With Proxmox HTTP API Commands
Get Social!Proxmox has 2 API access points that can be used to control your Proxmox server and virtual guests. One of the API access points is using the command line, which you’re likely already...
View ArticleStart/ Stop Container Using The Proxmox Web API in Bash
Get Social!The Proxmox Web API can perform any actions available in the front end Web. By implementing a REST API, all commands have been exposed and can be used programatically. In this example we’ll...
View ArticleProxmox 5.0 is now available
Get Social!Today, the Proxmox VE team have released a new version of Proxmox, incrementing the major version to 5.0! The new version packs in a raft of new features, the headline being the new...
View ArticleRename a Proxmox Host
Get Social!Renaming a Linux server’s hostname is usually a trivial task, and that’s no Different to a Proxmox server providing it’s not part of a cluster. If your machine is in a cluster then things...
View ArticleScripted Install of Oracle Java 8 on Ubuntu 16.04
Get Social!Please see Install Oracle Java In Debian/ Ubuntu using apt-get for more information. [crayon-59849e870500c172573749/]
View ArticleGitlab Runner Error: sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
Get Social!After issuing the first build on a dynamically created Container I came across the following build error when running a command with sudo. [crayon-59849e8704666263307329/] The error is...
View ArticleReduce Proxmox LXC Backup Size and Time
Get Social!Proxmox backs up guests byte-for-byte in a compressed archive. Looking at LXC backups specifically, the file system is compressed into the target backup file with just a few exceptions –...
View ArticleMove Proxmox Container to Different Storage (Updated for LXC)
Get Social!The Proxmox Web GUI does not give us the ability to migrate a container from one storage device to another directly. To move a container onto different storage we have to take a backup of...
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