Review: Terraform Up & Running

Because of doing many project in the cloud, terraform is the tool which i use regularly. And to get better, i decided to read this book:

If you are working with a cloud of one of the hyperscalers, the you should take a look at terraform and perhaps you should read this book ;-)

If you are interested, take a look at my review at amazon.de (like all my reviews: written in german ;-).

Influxdb: colletcd database not created...

Yesterday i followed a tutorial for building a dashboard for my fritzbox with Grafana.

By follwoing the tutorial i had to setup collectd and influxdb.

My problem: i did not copy and paste the collectd config for influxdb.conf - i just uncommented the lines provided by the ubuntu package.

And there was /usr/local/share/collectd/types.db mentioned.

This caused the following problem:

zerberus influxd[16239]: run: open server: open service: Stat(): stat /usr/local/share/collectd/types.db: no such file or directory

So i justed touched this file, because i thought this is something where influxdb wants to store data.

But this was wrong and in /var/log/syslog i saw the following errors:

unable to find "current" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_octets" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_errors" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_dropped" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_packets" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_octets" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_errors" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_dropped" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_packets" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_octets" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_errors" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_octets" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_ops" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_time" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_io_time" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_octets" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_ops" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_time" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_io_time" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_octets" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_ops" in TypesDB

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The solution: Search for types.db in /usr and use this as entry for

typesdb = "/usr/share/collectd/types.db"

inside the section [[collectd]] in influxdb.conf...

 

 

Mission accomplished: OpenHack: Migrating Microsoft Workloads to Azure

 After three days of hard work i got my first OPENHACK badge:

Issued by Microsoft OpenHack

Authorized by Microsoft

Here the details from Microsoft:

Earners of the OpenHack: Migration badge understand how to execute an end-to-end migration through optimization. They have shown that they can utilize Azure Migrate to migrate virtual machines to Microsoft Azure and can modernize legacy applications by migrating to PaaS services such as Azure SQL Database and Azure App Service. They have also have a foundational understanding of Azure identity, including hybrid identity with Azure AD and how to leverage Azure RBAC to govern and secure workloads.

It was really a great challenge to discuss and implement all the goals. Thanks to the excellent coaches and for providing the infrastructure!

Cloning my dual boot ubuntu to a larger SSD

 After working a while with my laptop i reached the disk limit with my SSD (256GB). First impression: Oh no - how to migrate onto a new, larger SDD...

But the prices have dropped so i bought a 1TB SSD and an external SSD box:

Now i was thinking about copying the partitions with dd from the original disk to the other - or better doing a dd for the complete disk?

A friend offered me to use acronis, but the software refused to start on my laptop...

I googled a bit around and found the following solution (inspired by http://www.geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-clone-hard-drive-to-smaller-drive/):

clonzilla.org

And this worked excellent.
After cloning my old ssd to the new one i removed the CD with clonzilla and my laptop immediately bootet from the new SSD which was still inside the SSD box.

Really cool!

I checked windows without replacing the SSD inside my laptop and this worked as well as the Ubuntu.

Next step was to boot with an GPARTED iso (can be found here) and resize the linux partition up to the new limits.

So last step was to open up my laptop and insert the 1TB SSD...

(Totally amazing that i did not have to run grub or change the uefi settings.)