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SmartOS on SmartOS everywhere for LX brand testing

TLDR? Click here for the quick set of commands to run on your SmartOS machine to try this stuff out. Hot on the heels of my previous blog entry [https://blog.shalman.org/smartos-on-smartos-in-the-jpc/] comes a KVM bootable image containing my latest SmartOS build with some extra tooling to make

SmartOS on SmartOS in the JPC

What now? We begin with Xzibit: Okay, really, what? 1. Log into the JPC portal 2. Provision a CentOS 7 VM * Use any package that gives you more than 1 VCPU (try "High CPU 1.75") * Only give it one VNIC on the public internet (remove the usual private one)

The SmartOS lx brand is coming along nicely.

I can't take any credit for the actual work, but I did help in two ways: 1. I started a wiki page [http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/lx+Brand] to help people learn how to test it while it's under development. 2. I set up my home machine to

Exploring epoll on SmartOS

Introduction Back in April, Joyent added [https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/commit/7f98ab2316da18bdec16f363a24fffa33594b4f2] an implementation of the epoll [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoll] API to their downstream tree of illumos. This is interesting because it means that many otherwise portable applications that depend on this (formerly) Linux-specific API can

Tricks With Joyent's Manta Service: Tarballs

The Use Case Let's say you're backing up a directory of files into Joyent [https://www.joyent.com]'s Manta service [https://www.joyent.com/products/manta] with Dave Eddy's [http://www.daveeddy.com/] manta-sync tool [https://github.com/bahamas10/node-manta-sync]. You're happily backing up your files regularly, but one

Testing SaltStack 2014.7 release candidates on SmartOS

I still have some other SmartOS related blog posts in the pipeline, but this one is quick and I know there's at least one person who will use these instructions soon. I recently ironed out the details for a build environment for esky builds of salt 2014.7 release candidates.

Overriding Driver Config Files on SmartOS

First, if you haven't already read it, you should at least skim Keith Wesolowski's post on anonymous tracing [http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2013/12/28/anonymous-tracing-on-smartos/] which discusses the underlying feature in SmartOS that enables this. (Aside: If my GRUB configs look different than yours, it might be because

Manta blind drop

Note to self: Generate a signed URL: msign -m PUT ~~/stor/where/you/want/it Other person uploads to that location: curl -X PUT -T some_file $signed_url Thanks @dapsays [https://twitter.com/dapsays]! Or in a pinch, just fire up @mcavage [https://twitter.com/mcavage]'s https://github.

Saltstack 2014.1.0 esky build for SmartOS

2014.1.0 has been released [http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/2014.1.0.html] I've built an esky package for it. Get it here [https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/nahamu/public/salt/salt-2014.1.0-esky-smartos.tar.gz] . Known issue with 2014.1.0 SMF support is a little

Line numbers when using mdb to debug node.js/V8

Someone on IRC was trying to follow along with http://dtrace.org/blogs/dap/2011/10/31/nodejs-v8-postmortem-debugging/ and got stuck because it's a bit outdated. Some notes * The module has changed name from mdb_v8.so to v8.so * ::jsstack doesn't display file name and line numbers anymore (confusing)

Getting Started with SaltStack in the Joyent Cloud

(Edited May 1, 2015 with updated links to tarballs. Also, in hindsight I don't think that using a user-script is the best way to bootstrap for production. This is still a quick way to kick the tires, though.) Create a Master Provision a zone /opt/local/sdc/bin/sdc-createmachine \ --package

Quick builds with Joyent Manta

For example, packaging SaltStack [https://blog.shalman.org/packaging-standalone-salt-builds-for-smartos/]: 1. Place in Manta the following 2. A git checkout that can be quickly updated 3. A simple build script [https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/nahamu//public/salt/build-develop.sh] 4. A prebuilt /opt/local tree with everything needed for the

Packaging Standalone Salt Builds for SmartOS

This isn't for everyone. Some people like their package manager to install their configuration management tool. Others like to use things like the omnibus install of chef. This is like the latter. This process will hopefully be much better when the successors of bbfreeze-1.1.2 and salt-0.17.1

Ghost on SmartOS

1. Get a separate account set up for ghost to use echo ghost:x:5001:5001::/opt/ghost:/bin/false >> /etc/passwd echo ghost::5001: >> /etc/group 2. Exctract the zip file unzip ghost-0.3.3.zip -d /opt/ghost cd /opt/ghost npm install --production cp config.example.js

Don't Get Excited

As we all know, I rarely ever blog for long. I doubt this will be any exception. With that said, enjoy some instructions [https://blog.shalman.org/ghost-on-smartos/] on how I got Ghost [http://ghost.org] up and running on my Joyent [http://www.joyent.com] instance.

SmartOS Wiki Pages

SmartOS Wiki Pages 2013-04-19 Just a list of some SmartOS wiki pages I've spent a lot of time working on. 1. Simple PXE Server [http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Simple+PXE+Server] 2. Spice on SmartOS [http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Spice+on+SmartOS]

Some quick notes on compiling and running Samba 4 on SmartOS

Some quick notes on compiling and running Samba 4 on SmartOS 2013-04-19 Setup 1. Follow Jonathan Perkin's instructions for setting up a pkgsrc tree for builds [http://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/pkgsrc-on-smartos-zone-creation-and-basic-builds.html] (I used 2012Q4 on base64-1.9.1) 2. Patch the wip/samba package: diff --git a/

Serving SmartOS from your PXE server

Serving SmartOS from your PXE server 2011-08-17 (Quick and Dirty Edition)Assumptions 1. This guide assumes that you already have a PXE (TFTP) server set up. 2. This guide assumes that you use pxelinux [http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/PXELINUX] 3. This guide assumes that you only want