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Chronicles of a washed up systems administrator.
In the basement, M. Bison (``mbision.foxhop.net.``), a T430 with a cracked screen runs queitly with his lid closed, acting as a SmartOS hypervisor to 3 Solaris derived zones and 4 KVM ubuntu guests.
In the basement, M. Bison (``mbision.foxhop.net.``), a T430 with a cracked screen runs quietly with his lid closed, acting as a SmartOS hypervisor to 3 Solaris derived zones and 4 KVM ubuntu guests.
One of these guests is the oldest of the bunch and his name is Akuma (``akuma.foxhop.net.``).
Akuma and I go way back, over 13 years now. At one point Akuma was a physical machine, who ran ubuntu and had it's own guest operating systems.
Akuma and I go way back, over 13 years now. At one point Akuma was a physical machine, who ran FreeBSD and then later Ubuntu 6.04 with it's own guest kernel virtual machines.
Akuma has been "home base" for as long as I remember. A place a "jump box" where shit got done. A place to perform operations. It make sense that Akuma would evolve into the private internal DNS Nameserver for ``foxhop.net.`` and other domains, and also take on Salt Master resposibilities.
Akuma has been "home base" for as long as I remember. A place where shit got done. A place to perform operations. A place to "jump" from with SSH.
It makes sense that Akuma would evolve and gain many roles over the years.
Akuma performs DNS caching and forwarding for my LAN, it acts as the internal authoritative Nameserver for ``foxhop.net.``, and is the Salt Master my LAN and extended networks in the "cloud".
Akuma uses ``tmux`` with default settings to enable "remote shell" vibe.
This lets me connect to my session running on Akuma from anywhere in the world.
Only problem is, Akuma reboots weekly when M. Bison `triggers a complete backup of all guests </backup-all-virtual-machines-on-a-smartos-hypervisor-with-smart-back-sh/>`_ (snapshots are stored in-the-raw [uncompressed] on Guile, the FreeNAS server).
Only problem is, Akuma reboots weekly when M. Bison `triggers a complete backup of all guests </backup-all-virtual-machines-on-a-smartos-hypervisor-with-smart-back-sh/>`_ snapshots are stored on Guile, the FreeNAS server, uncompressed since disk space is cheap and this process allows for downtime but I try to limit it.
Since Akuma reboots so frequently, to continue to function as my "home base" I needed a way to create a tmux sessions on boot, and I did so using SaltStack:
Since Akuma reboots each week, in order for it to continue to serve as my "home base" I needed a way to create tmux sessions on boot, and I did so using SaltStack:
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