First step to micorservices: CoreOS on virtualbox (1)

I read some articles about microservice architecture and about kubernetes / apache mesos.
My conclusion from these articles is, that lightweigt servers are a key point to this microservice architecture. Just to learn how tiny such a OS could be, i will try to install CoreOS inside virtualbox.

There is an easy way to get CoreOS running ("booting CoreOS container linux from ISO"), but there some limitations stated on the CoreOS website:

1. There is no straightforward way to provide an Ignition config.
2. A mininum of 1024M of RAM is required to boot Container Linux via ISO.

So just download the iso image coreos_production_iso_image.iso and create a virtualbox vm:

 Then mount the coreos_production_iso_image.iso as boot cd/dvd

 and here we go:

At this point we have something like a live cd running. Because nothing was installed on the hdd and it is not possible to umount the ISO image.

How to get from this point to a installed operating system on disk, i will show in a following posting.


Other posts around this topic: Core OS

Installing CoreOS on Virtualbox

Core OS - a minimal linux? A quick overview: diskspace, mounts, commands, kernel, ...

How to login via ssh (default password?!)

structure of the ISO image

Customizing a CoreOS image/iso: Ignition

(bash): The most useless commands (9)

After talking about

1. rev
2. yes
3. sl
4. cowsay
5. cmatrix
6. cal
7. rig

here another pretty useless command:

$ pi 10
3.141592653

Manpage:

DESCRIPTION
       The  pi  command  prints  100 decimal digits of Archimedes' constant pi or a number of
       digits specified by an integer parameter on the command line.

Ingress: Level 16 reached...

After long time playing google/niantic's ingress (the predecessor of pokemon go - all the arenas are portals in ingress, most of them created by ingress players) i reached the last level:

And the usual welcome package:

I am wondering, wether i should continue playing or quit the game for now or ever.
Perhaps reading this discussion (What do lvl 16 players play for?) may help me.

(bash): The most useless commands (8)

After talking about

1. rev
2. yes
3. sl
4. cowsay
5. cmatrix
6. cal

 i found another funny command:

rig

Its manpage tells the following:

DESCRIPTION
       Rig  is a utility that will piece together a random first name, last name, street num‐
       ber and address, along with a geographically consistant (ie, they all match  the  same
       area) city, state, ZIP code, and area code.

       It is suitable for such applications as feeding the NY times registration page to fend
       off junk (snail) mail and telemarketers, or for registering  on  BBS's  to  which  you
       don't wish to reveal your real information.

I am not sure if this tool is banned by the NSA ;-) but here we go:

schroff@zerberus:~$ rig
Carmelo Suarez
947 East Parson St
Alton, IL  62002
(708) xxx-xxxx
schroff@zerberus:~$ rig
Janna Stewart
970 Potter Rd
Auburn, NY  13021
(315) xxx-xxxx
schroff@zerberus:~$ rig
Bernadine Collins
27 Willow Rd
Seattle, WA  98109
(206) xxx-xxxx