OPNsense upgrade failed: Out of inodes

May 21, 2019 7 minute read

I use OPNsense as my firewall on a Pcengines Alix.

The primary reason is to have a firewall that will be always up-to-update, unlike most commercial customer grade firewalls that are only supported for a few years. Having a firewall that runs opensource software - it’s based on FreeBSD - also make it easier to review and to verify that there are no back doors.

When I tried to upgrade it to the latest release - 19.1.7 - the upgrade failed because the filesystem ran out of inodes. There is already a topic about this at the OPNsense forum and a fix available for the upcoming nano OPNsense images.

Building Your Own Docker Base Images (Part 3: Yum)

May 12, 2019 3 minute read

In my previous two posts (1, 2 ), we created Docker Debian and Arch-based images from scratch for the i386 architecture.

In this blog post - last one in this series - we’ll do the same for yum based distributions like CentOS and Fedora.

Building your own Docker base images isn’t difficult and let you trust your distribution Gpg signing keys instead of the docker hub. As explained in the first blog post. The mkimage scripts in the contrib directory of the Moby project git repository is a good place to start if you want to build own docker images.

Building your own docker images (Part2: Arch GNU/Linux & Co)

May 5, 2019 2 minute read

In my previous post, we started with creating Debian based docker images from scratch for the i386 architecture.

In this blog post, we’ll create Arch GNU/Linux based images.

Arch GNU/Linux

Arch Linux stopped supporting i386 systems. When you want to run Archlinux on an i386 system there is a community maintained Archlinux32 project and the Free software version Parabola GNU/Linux-libre.

For the arm architecture, there is Archlinux Arm project that I used.

building your own docker base images (Part 1: Debian GNU/Linux & Co)

April 22, 2019 7 minute read

I was using docker on an Odroid U3, but my Odroid stopped working. I switched to another system that is i386 only.

You’ll find my journey to build docker images for i386 below.

Reasons to build your own docker images

If you want to use docker you can start with docker images on the docker registry. There are several reasons to build your own base images.

Howto use centos cloud images with cloud-init on KVM/libvirtd

March 3, 2019 6 minute read

Images versus unattended setup

Old-school

Unattended setup

In a traditional environment, systems are installed from a CDROM. The configuration is executed by the system administrator through the installer. This soon becomes a borning and unpractical task when we need to set up a lot of systems also it is important that systems are configured in same - and hopefully correct - way.

In a traditional environment, this can be automated by booting via BOOTP/PXE boot and configured is by a system that “feeds” the installer. Examples are:

• [Solaris Jumpstart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JumpStart_(Solaris)
• Redhat Kickstart
• DebianInstaller Preseed
• Suse Autoyast
• …