Ubuntu Chef Workstation for Joyent Public Cloud

A jump box in the cloud is nice, but when actively building Chef recipes it is more practical to work from a desktop. In this article I show how to set up a Chef Server in Joyent Public Cloud and use a Ubuntu Desktop as your Chef Workstation. Read more »

Chef and Knife on Joyent Public Cloud

Are you interested in Chef and want to give it a spin on Joyent Public Cloud? This article will go… Read more »

Deploying Squid HTTP forward proxy in HA on SmartOS

Squid is an easy FTP, HTTP and HTTPS proxy to install and configure. SmartOS has easy support for… Read more »

Making a ZFS 4 disk Mirrored vdev zpool on SmartOS on R720xd

A very quick summary of how I configured ZFS on my data center research machines with SmartOS. Read more »

Node.js for Round-robin HTTPS to HTTP Proxying

I am mostly familiar with Apache httpd and using mod_jk to do proxying to Tomcat. Having done a… Read more »

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