I’m very proud to announce that I’ve been included in the Cisco Champion community for the second time now in 2015! This is a great community to be a part of and through my experiences in 2014 with the program, I was able to get great access to resources and people who helped to bring much more knowledge to me …
A Cloud PSA: Cloud Needs BCP Too
Everyone is looking to the cloud for solutions to many problems. This could be for centralizing applications and data, ensuring availability regardless of location, enabling scale-out application infrastructure, or many other reasons. One of the reasons is to use the cloud as a BCP/DR (Business Continuity Planning/Disaster Recovery) target, which is also a great use-case for the public cloud. Among …
C.R.E.A.M. – Cache Rules Everything Around Me – with vagrant-cachier
One of the challenges with using Vagrant and VirtualBox for my labs is that I run download processes over and over again. This is good for testing, but not very good for time and bandwidth usage. When we have really aggressive downloading needs like apt repository files and such, there is something that can really help with your performance on …
Adding a Shell Script to Vagrant
Recently we were working with our simple Vagrant and VirtualBox configuration to create a new Ubuntu 14.04 server which will be the baseline for some more blogs I’m building. This is where we start to add a little more to the build process to illustrate some concepts that we are going to work on going forward. Because shell scripts are …