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30. 10. 2023 Lorenzo Candeago DevOps

LVM Disks on Azure for Dockerized Applications

As an example of a Logical Volume Manager ( LVM ) setup on Azure, let me show you a real-world use case. Say we want to run a Pulp 3 container to host an rpm repo on Azure. As the base image let’s choose Rocky Linux 9. The machine that we provision will have two…

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20. 12. 2022 Alessandro Valentini DevOps

One Year as a DevOps Engineer

The Beginning When I started my new role as a DevOps Engineer at the beginning of 2022, we had little experience in DevOps as a team. We tried several times to implement automation in order to simplify maintenance and reduce the amount of overall effort we invested in routine activities. However, since DevOps engineers are…

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20. 12. 2022 Lorenzo Candeago Development, DevOps

A Simple and Portable Dockerfile for Working with Azure and Ansible

For our use case, we need to be able to deploy Azure machines using Ansible from developer’s laptops and from our own CI/CD infrastructure both on Jenkins and OpenShift. The easiest way to ship a working and easy-to-use environment for our use case is to create a Docker instance: we based our Docker on rockylinux…

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06. 10. 2022 Lorenzo Candeago DevOps

My OpenShift Journey #4: Run Unprivileged Containers with systemd in OpenShift: Part 1 – Deployment

For our ongoing transition from Jenkins to OpenShift, we’re currently working on porting our testing infrastructure to OpenShift. Our tests involve installing and running our product, NetEye, in a container. The installation requires a working systemd environment inside the container, and systemd needs to run with PID 1 and as root user (UID 0). Until…

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07. 07. 2022 Lorenzo Candeago DevOps

How to Use a Host’s Redhat Subscription to Run Containers Using Docker instead of Podman

In NetEye 4.23 we shifted our base containers from CentOS to RedHat Enterprise Linux. Within our NetEye image and container we ship packages that come from RedHat Enterprise Linux’s private repositories and are thus subject to subscription, hence we need a way to be able to use our subscription when building NetEye containers. RedHat allows…

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26. 07. 2021 Attilio Broglio NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Building and Stress Testing Multitenancy NetEye-NTOP

Introduction The nTop application is one of NetEye’s integrated solutions for network traffic monitoring. In order to test its scalability, we decided to build a test bench where we could simulate a customer who needs to monitor a large number of devices (i.e., 1-2K routers) and wants to group this information at the nTop level…

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