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IaaS Terraform

Managing LXC/LXD Linux Containers with Terraform

Disclaimer: This post will not speak about creating and maintaining LXC clusters and networking. This post will introduce LXC/LXD and Terraform seperately, as they are independent things. Once you have enough information about what these things are, I will show you how to use them together. LXC The lightervisor LXC is linux containers. A System […]

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Computer Networks South Africa

The Biggest Internet Players in South Africa – Internet Exchange Resources

NAP Africa – Non-Profit Internet Exchange view who is peering PeeringDB search for Teraco data centres – You can view information about the data centre, view the local internet exchanges and networks – autonomous system number – given a unique ASN is allocated to each AS for use in BGP routing, they control large blocks […]

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virtualisation

Virtual Environment Utilities and Resources

I’ve been looking at what is available to help manage a virtual environment, that favours open source. It is important to know the difference between a VM, VPS and Container. VM – Full VIrtual Machine, has it’s own kernel. VPS – VPSs always run on the same OS kernel as the host system Container – […]

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Network Automation

Network Automation with Juniper

I know a bit about networking – IP addresses, different layers, HTTP, DNS, ethernet cables, default gateway, routers, switches, TCP/UDP and DHCP. However, this is mainly from a home network perspective. Getting into bigger and more advanced networking – I don’t know my arse from my elbow. I do know quite a bit of stuff […]

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API

Service for catching your HTTP requests to test a webhook

Here is a great services for testing and capturing your webhook, to see the headers and body variables. https://requestcatcher.com/ http://requestbin.fullcontact.com/