Illumos
On my OmniOS zones, I don’t use DHCP. Mostly because I don’t have that many of those; DHCP would be overkill and another service to manage. For those configured using IPv4 only, the zadm utility can configure the network stack from a JSON file. But I had that zone where I needed both IPv4 and IPv6 configured and couldn’t have it working via zadm.
So I configured it from within the zone.Continue reading...
While reading logs, I saw that my OmniOS server was not really time synced with the rest of the Wild Wild World. After a quick check, I realised I forgot to set up NTP on this server.
Let’s solve this now!Continue reading...
I run a lot of bhyve VMs on my OmniOS server because that’s the way I’m used to go with exposing services. For fun knowledge purposes, I decided that I would replace my Grafana virtual machine with an Illumos zone.
Thanks to pkgsrc, this is really easy and straightforward.Continue reading...
I have a Dell server in a colo. It (will) hosts some virtual machines and (private) data. And because trust does not exclude control (on your data), I do encrypt (at rest) some of the storage.Continue reading...
All my servers use an SMTP relay to communicate via email. I have setup “service” accounts that they use to authenticate themselves on a smarthost. My OmniOS server is no exception.Continue reading...