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RalphNG Data Centre Infrastructure Manager (DCIM), Asset Management with rack layouts diagram and more. The amount of time I have not had diagrams and have spent my own time or remotely talked someone through trying to find a device in a rack and when it is found having to follow cables to find out how […]
Turns time-series databases and more into useful visualisation of that data it empowers you to graph, alert on, and explore data you have collected and supports Prometheus natively. Again with most really good open-source software, the easiest way of getting it up and running is with docker there is an official Grafana built docker image […]
Prometheus is a metric collection (scraping), alerting engine, time-series database, and visualisation all-in-one used by some of the largest companies in the world.I like to use it for its main purpose Metric (data) collection benifits of Prometheus is its plantory scale think just like DNS The above is a over simplification but you get the […]
CodiMD is the free open source version of HackMD with reduced features and I find it is perfect for creating and standardising documentation for a team as you all get the formatting the same. Installing CodiMD The easiest way of getting up and running with CodiMD is to use the docker-compose provided by CodiMD To […]
Ok getting this blog back on track we will need a docker host or two for easily setting up of Lab solutions. What is Docker ? Docker is the abstraction of the application from the Operating System what this means is you can separate the OS and the app, you can run multiple application on […]
Q. which Linux distro to use? A. the one that is fit for purpose. Fit for purpose There are so many Linux distros but they all have there uses even Hannah Montana Linux so what is fit for purpose here is a quick list of potential question to help find out Do we have the skill to use \ […]