Increasing Disk size of a virtualbox disk image

Recently when dealing with a virtualbox, came across a specific VM that ended up getting low on disk space. Used up almost all of the space in the allocated disk. Now one can add an additional disk, or expand the existing. This post will deal with the latter ‘expand an existing virtual disk drive’. Power … Read more

Install open puppet Master on Ubuntu

For the purposes of this tutorial I will be configuring the following: Ubuntu 16.04.1 Server  Hostname: puppet.example.com  IP: 192.168.1.95 => Puppet Server Ubuntu 16.04.1 Desktop  Hostname:  client1.example.com  IP: 192.168.1.110 => Puppet Client 1 CentOS 7 Desktop   Hostname:  client2.example.com  IP:  192.168.1.114  => Puppet Client 2 Install the puppet Server Enable the Puppetlabs Repository  (replacing distro … Read more

Turnkey OpenLDAP

For this exercise, we’ll be setting up an OpenLDAP server (and at least one ldap client VM on Ubuntu desktop) using virtualbox. Resources: * Turnkey OpenLDAP VM = https://www.turnkeylinux.org/openldap * Ubuntu desktop ISO = http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop Sometimes it is important to configure an OpenLDAP server (and x clients). If you are just learning, or looking to … Read more