It has been a while since I wrote my previous article. The substance for this article came from the video on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd08qoOyTCA What was I trying to do: As a part of production docker configuration, I was playing with devicemapper storage drivers for creating a persistent storage area for containers. Docker documentation allows …
Ok. I have seen several pieces of documentation on this. Lots of tutorials out there. However all of the sites and tutorials do not have all the steps mentioned clearly. I am trying to make this as comprehensive as possible. Try this on a Trial or test Portal Server, preferably a VM with a Snapshot …
Pre-config Steps 1. Switch to root id. 2. Ensure that a proper host name has been assigned to the Linux Server. I am running this inside a virtual machine and hence I have created a host name and assigned it to the local loopback address. (Edit the /etc/hosts file). Ensure that the server’s host name …
First you need to add the CentOS repository, create this file using your favorite text editor: [root@localhost ~]# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/centos.repo Adding the following contents, note the ’5′ has to be hardcoded to either 5 or 6 depending on your RHEL version. [centos]name=CentOS $releasever – $basearchbaseurl=http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/centos/5/os/$basearch/enabled=1gpgcheck=0 Once you’ve completed this step, you can now use “yum” …
Had a chance to update my blog after a long time. This time it was DNS issues on my CentOS server. I have 3 NIC’s on my machine and only one of them (eth1) was connected to the router. I had NetworkManager manage my networks. Although eth1 had an IP Address assigned by the router …