Startup
Hacking the McDonalds API
Discover how to explore the McDonald's API, learn about its uses, and understand the legal implications and security measures. Get started with tools and tips for ethical hacking.
Docker
Analyzing VMWare, Docker, and Kubernetes Trends
Explore the latest trends in VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes and how they are shaping modern IT infrastructure. Learn about their differences, how they complement each other, and why Kubernetes is key for large-scale container orchestration.
Docker
Battle of the Docker Orchestrators: Rancher vs Tutum
The Docker Orchestration race continues to heat up. With a ton of great tools on the market and new tools arriving almost daily makes it difficult to stay up to date with all the developments. @veggiemonk and I try to stay on top of the Awesome Docker List but it
Open Source
How to Resize Ubuntu Root Partition
I used to be able to do these tasks with my eyes closed with AIX and other version of Linux and Unix. Today my brain blue screened on me while trying to expand my Ubuntu machine's root volume group, logical volume, and filesystem. Wow it's been
Open Source
How to install and configure CoreOS inside VMware
I'm working on building a my own Cloud Platform based on Docker and CoreOS. Howerver my underlying infrastrucutre is VMware vCloud which is not exactly straight forward in comparison to Amazon EC2 or Digital Ocean when installing CoreOS. VMWare has a really nice CoreOS tutorial but it is
Docker
Upgrading Docker Containers running Ghost CMS
The next step with Ghost The Ghost crew released a new version of the Ghost CMS system, 0.5.3. This release includes some nice features, as seen below. So the next question is, how difficult is it to upgrade Ghost while running on Docker? Well, it is so simple
Open Source
vCloud ISO Images Appear with Question Marks
<--This issue drove me nuts this week. Someone uploaded a bunch of ISO images with vCloud Director 5.5. The ISO's images uploaded fine but some images appeared as normal and others appeared as icons with a question mark that are unmountable on VM's. WTF?
Docker
Migrating Wordpress to a Load Balanced Ghost Docker
Learn how to migrate from WordPress to a Dockerized Ghost setup. Discover the benefits of Ghost, Docker setup tips, and how to streamline your migration process.
Security
vCloud Networking Security Best Practices
vCloud networking is often overlooked when considering security best practices. However, networking architecture has a lot of aspects to consider. By creating Internal Organization Networks (ION), External Organization Networks (EON), vApp Networks, and Demilitarized Zones (DMZ) this enables the administrator to separate servers based on role or application. By using
Open Source
How to Recover your Root Ubuntu Password
So I changed my Ubuntu password via my Cloud interface and next thing I know my Ubuntu password didn't take and the old one was some randomly generated password from my Ubuntu template. Shit! So how do you recover a root Ubuntu password? Well the trick I learned