Solaris

If you haven’t used Vagrant then go check it out. It’s certainly come a long way since the early days and expanded beyond just VirtualBox. Targeted early at developers its certainly a tool that has different uses to different folk, as a system admin I find it handy to test and build SOE’s, deployment scripts and an assortment of sandbox stuff. There are countless base box’s available on line if your are not inclined/interested in building your own. There is however not a lot of Solaris base boxes about , mostly I’d guess due to distribution restrictions, or lack of demand. I’ve experimented with veewee and bento but packer the new kid on the block seems to fit the bill. Since there is no shortage of info on building Linux base boxes I decided if I was going to kick the tires on packer then I’d make it useful and build a Solaris 11 base box. ...

A recent post Solaris Packages for Puppet 3.0.0-rc7, Facter 1.6.0 and Hiera 1.0.0 on a puppet mailing list caught my eye. While gems has a nifty little package management system of it’s own, it is possible be that your machines do not have direct access to the interent so having a local IPS repo is handy. I’ll demonstrate how to add these packages to you own repository. This assumes you have already setup your own local repo. ...

Solaris 11 repo setup but you want to have your own repo serving up own home grown packages, separate from your main Solaris 11 image repository. Actually I’d like an extra two repo’s I want a dev repo that to test my packaging abilities and a “release” one when I’m ready to publish. Mostly becuase there doesn’t seem to be a straight forward way to remove packages from a repo and my packaging skills are work in progress. ...

Linux kickstart for Solaris Admin’sSo sometimes Solaris Admins need to turn their hand at another OS for various reasons, especial in this day and age of mass production of virtual environments. Solaris Admins will be well versed with jumpstart a tried and truly tested system of automated builds for over a decade now. While recently this system has been thrown out with the bath water for AI in Solaris 11 and while the jury is still out on that one that’s a conversation for another time. ...

Second Video as part of a presentation MSOSUG in April 2011 showing how to create a Solaris 10 branded container in Solaris 11

Okay , not entirely sure why yet but I though I’d like to get VNC server configured on my Solaris machines, perhaps it’s with the arrival of the AppleTV 2 in the house freeing up the trusty mac mini workhorse to go back to desktop duties after the last 3+ year as a Plex app media player, anyway on to the task at hand.

How to upgrade your Opensolaris dev build 134 to Solaris 11 Express build 151a

Jim Mauro’s Dtrace tut

Day two the rain has stopped a little bit of Californian sunshine.

Note if you do not have at least Version 3.0.6.1.e r49743 firmware then you will run into this bug 6823488 Cannot add an SSH key for automatic password authentication. > ssh root@ilom Password: Waiting for daemons to initialize... Daemons ready Sun(TM) Integrated Lights Out Manager Version 3.0.6.1.e r49743 Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. -> cd /SP/users/admin/ssh/keys/1 /SP/users/admin/ssh/keys/1 -> set load_uri=http://192.168.0.1/sshkey.pub Load successful.