A Technical I.T./DevOps Blog
Problem scenario
You are running Vagrant to create a VM on Oracle VirtualBox. You are given a prompt after your “vagrant up” command:
“Which interface should the network bridge to?”
No option seems to work. You have used a variety of different names, GUIDs, syntaxes, etc. What should you do?
Solution
Use “1)” or “2)” or any of the integer values listed above the question.
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Question
What is the “watch mechanism” in Kubernetes?
Solution
A notification system from the API server to trigger changes in Kubernetes. In Kubernetes there are observable events. The watch mechanism is a system for listening for specific events to respond to. The Kubelet, the Scheduler, the kube-dns pod, and individual controllers are components that use the watch mechanism. The API server is a central component that watching components are aware of.
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Problem scenario
You try to run a pipenv command, but you get an error about “tomlkit.exception”.
Solution
Copy the Pipfile to a new name (to back it up). Delete the original Pipfile. Try to run the command again. If it still fails, try removing pipenv by uninstalling it. Then reinstall pipenv. Then reboot the computer.
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Problem scenario
You want to install and configure Apache Camel from source on any distribution of Linux. What do you do?
Solution
You cannot. But there is a way to use Apache Camel as a test.
Background: It is not something that is can be purely installed-and-configured like other applications. Camel is a framework for integrating messaging solutions or microservice architecture.
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Problem scenario
You have installed sqlite3. It is a version above 3.22.0. But when you run “make deps” you see this error message:
checking for SQLITE… no
configure: error: Package requirements (sqlite3 = 3.22.0) were not met:
No package ‘sqlite3’ found
What should you do?
Solution
Run this:
sudo apt -y install libsqlite3-dev
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Problem scenario
You have run start-dfs.sh and start-yarn.sh. You have stopped all the Hadoop services too. When you run “jps”, the NameNode is not showing up. You have tried a variety of different troubleshooting methods (including rebooting the NameNode). The NameNode has never worked correctly. You can delete all the data in the cluster because it never really worked. What should you do?
Solution
Run this but remember it will delete all your data:
hdfs namenode -format # Warning: this command will delete all your data in Hadoop …
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Problem scenario
You have added a partition to Linux. When you type “df -h” you do not see evidence that it is available. You tried the “sudo lsblk” command, but you do not see the device. The “fdisk -l” command does show the new device and the size that is available. The command ll /dev/sd* does not show your new device.
When you run “fdisk /dev/sdaX”,
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Problem scenario
You are aware that arrays are a supported data type in Bash. You would like to iterate through some variables as arrays could enable complex logic. What do you do?
Solution
The array is zero-based. So the first element is referred to by index number 0.
continualarray=(dog cat hamster rabbit horse cow)
echo ${continualarray[2]}
echo ${continualarray[5]}
Create a file foobar.txt to test an array’s line-reading capacity.
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Problem scenario
You want to use Windows 2016 with 2 GB of RAM. You have Oracle VirtualBox installed on a Linux server. You want the VM to be able to communicate with the host or other VMs on the host. You have a license for Windows 2016. What should you do?
Solution
Prerequisite: You have Oracle VirtualBox set up. You know what adapters you can attach a VM to.
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Continue reading “How Do You Create a Windows 2016 Server with Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox?”
Problem scenario
You want to return only the JSON of the output that is related to a specific role — not the entire list of an “aws iam list-roles” command. What do you do?
Solution
Prerequisite
You must have the AWS CLI installed. If you need assistance, see this posting.
Procedures
Use the “–query” flag.
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