I first visited Glen Affric in September 2006, more or less 10 years ago. Not long after, I discovered the joy of standing at my favourite bench watching the sun rise behind the distant mountains, its light casting shadows of the trees on the mist. Since then I’ve been longing for a second chance at the same scene – and this year, with a bit of good timing, I think I managed it.
And another behind-the-scenes 360-pano selfie of what it’s like to be there…
[sphere 2868]
What 22TB looks like.
zpool create data /dev/ada1 /dev/ada2 zfs create data/Pictures
"allow_dhcp_spoofing": "true",
"allow_ip_spoofing": "true",
"allowed_ips": [ "192.168.99.0/24" ]
[root@78-24-af-39-19-7a ~]# imgadm avail | grep centos-7 5e164fac-286d-11e4-9cf7-b3f73eefcd01 centos-7 20140820 linux 2014-08-20T13:24:52Z 553da8ba-499e-11e4-8bee-5f8dadc234ce centos-7 20141001 linux 2014-10-01T19:08:31Z 1f061f26-6aa9-11e4-941b-ff1a9c437feb centos-7 20141112 linux 2014-11-12T20:18:53Z b1df4936-7a5c-11e4-98ed-dfe1fa3a813a centos-7 20141202 linux 2014-12-02T19:52:06Z 02dbab66-a70a-11e4-819b-b3dc41b361d6 centos-7 20150128 linux 2015-01-28T16:23:36Z 3269b9fa-d22e-11e4-afcc-2b4d49a11805 centos-7 20150324 linux 2015-03-24T14:00:58Z c41bf236-dc75-11e4-88e5-038814c07c11 centos-7 20150406 linux 2015-04-06T15:58:28Z d8e65ea2-1f3e-11e5-8557-6b43e0a88b38 centos-7 20150630 linux 2015-06-30T15:44:09Z [root@78-24-af-39-19-7a ~]# imgadm import d8e65ea2-1f3e-11e5-8557-6b43e0a88b38 Importing d8e65ea2-1f3e-11e5-8557-6b43e0a88b38 (centos-7@20150630) from "https://images.joyent.com" Gather image d8e65ea2-1f3e-11e5-8557-6b43e0a88b38 ancestry Must download and install 1 image (514.3 MiB) Download 1 image [=====================================================>] 100% 514.39MB 564.58KB/s 15m32s Downloaded image d8e65ea2-1f3e-11e5-8557-6b43e0a88b38 (514.3 MiB) ...1f3e-11e5-8557-6b43e0a88b38 [=====================================================>] 100% 514.39MB 38.13MB/s 13s Imported image d8e65ea2-1f3e-11e5-8557-6b43e0a88b38 (centos-7@20150630) [root@78-24-af-39-19-7a ~]# [root@78-24-af-39-19-7a ~]# cat newbox.config { "brand": "kvm", "resolvers": [ "8.8.8.8", "8.8.4.4" ], "ram": "256", "vcpus": "2", "nics": [ { "nic_tag": "admin", "ip": "192.168.5.48", "netmask": "255.255.255.0", "gateway": "192.168.5.1", "model": "virtio", "primary": true, "allow_dhcp_spoofing": "true", "allow_ip_spoofing": "true", "allowed_ips": [ "192.168.99.0/24" ] } ], "disks": [ { "image_uuid": "d8e65ea2-1f3e-11e5-8557-6b43e0a88b38", "boot": true, "model": "virtio" } ], "customer_metadata": { "root_authorized_keys": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1y[...]" } } [root@78-24-af-39-19-7a ~]# vmadm create -f newbox.config Successfully created VM d7b00fa6-8aa5-466b-aba4-664913e80a2e [root@78-24-af-39-19-7a ~]# ping -s 192.168.5.48 PING 192.168.5.48: 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.5.48: icmp_seq=0. time=0.377 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.5.48: icmp_seq=1. time=0.519 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.5.48: icmp_seq=2. time=0.525 ms ... zsh, basalt% ssh root@192.168.5.48 Warning: Permanently added '192.168.5.48' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts. Last login: Mon Aug 3 16:49:24 2015 from 192.168.5.47 __ . . _| |_ | .-. . . .-. :--. |- |_ _| ;| || |(.-' | | | |__| `--' `-' `;-| `-' ' ' `-' / ; Instance (CentOS 7.1 (1503) 20150630) `-' https://docs.joyent.com/images/linux/centos [root@d7b00fa6-8aa5-466b-aba4-664913e80a2e ~]#
And there we have a new guest VM up and running in less than a minute’s effort.
Infrastructure and development environments recreated from scratch (partly thanks to storing my ~/etc/ in git) in under an hour.
I’m still looking for the perfect distributed filesystem, however…