After the clean install of ubuntu, I only had a 4GB OS partition setup for me. This partition lived on a single physical volume (PV), volume group (VG) and logical volume (LV). These are important concepts to understand Linux filesystem structures. The first step in expanding my storage is to create a separate logical volume … Continue reading Plex Server Setup – Part II: Making a Filesystem
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Plex Server Setup – Part I: Resizing OS Volume
Full disclosure, as someone who’s spent most of his career designing and building software, I don’t often get the opportunity to tackle good old fashioned system administration tasks, especially on Linux. However, since my introduction to PLEX –an open source home media server—I’ve had more opportunities. I’ve recently acquired a new server that I plan … Continue reading Plex Server Setup – Part I: Resizing OS Volume
OpsWorks + Auto-scaling Windows Stacks
AWS has multiple ways of enabling Auto-scaling of EC2 instances. Two of which are Auto-Scaling Groups and OpsWorks. When setting up a stack in OpsWorks you’ll notice that you can add Load-based instances to scale the stack beyond the fixed instances you establish. The scale configuration that you specify on the below screen should be … Continue reading OpsWorks + Auto-scaling Windows Stacks
Installing .NET Core on Raspberry Pi 3
I got a new Raspberry Pi 3 last week while I was buying a new Raspberry Pi Zero that I bought for $5. I decided I wanted to try to install .NET Core on my new Raspberry Pi after installing a fresh copy of Raspbian on it. The problem is there is no official build … Continue reading Installing .NET Core on Raspberry Pi 3
Installing .NET Core Preview 2.1 on Ubuntu Linux 16.10 Yakkety
So I followed the official instructions on how to install .NET Core on Ubuntu but ran into some lock issues at the very last command. Some might call it ‘clutch’. I initially received the following errors: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily available) E: Unable to lock the administration director … Continue reading Installing .NET Core Preview 2.1 on Ubuntu Linux 16.10 Yakkety
How to sterilize your Docker Host
Here is a pretty handy set of commands that will clean out your Docker host of all containers and images. It’s useful when resetting a demo environment to start fresh. Step 1: Stop all docker images docker stop $(docker ps -aq) Step 2: Remove all containers docker rm $(docker ps -aq) Step 3: Remove all … Continue reading How to sterilize your Docker Host
Installing Ubuntu x64 on a Hyper-V Virtual Machine
I recently wanted to get a local instance of Docker on my workstation to kick around some cool things happening in the Microsoft space on Linux (e.g. Service Fabric on Linux, SQL Server on Linux, ASP.NET Core on Linux) locally so I thought I would setup a Hyper-V virtual machine with Ubuntu Server and save … Continue reading Installing Ubuntu x64 on a Hyper-V Virtual Machine
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