Ops635 reading list

Online Articles

• cloud skills
• ScienceLogic Vs Open Source - Do you agree with the arguments?

Online Book via Seneca Library

• Network and System Security Chapter 4

OpenShift WordPress Blogs

• Uzair's OpenShift Online WordPress Blog
• Colin's OpenShift Online WordPress Blog
• Mohammed's OpenShift Online WordPress Blog
• Samim's OpenShift Online WordPress Blog
• OPS635 OpenShift Online WordPress Blog

DNS mapping as on Jan 20, 2016

blog-ushamim.rhcloud.com is an alias for ex-std-node738.prod.rhcloud.com.
ex-std-node738.prod.rhcloud.com is an alias for ec2-52-5-157-62.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
ec2-52-5-157-62.compute-1.amazonaws.com has address 52.5.157.62

wordpress-ckyip.rhcloud.com is an alias for ex-std-node782.prod.rhcloud.com.
ex-std-node782.prod.rhcloud.com is an alias for ec2-52-71-250-248.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
ec2-52-71-250-248.compute-1.amazonaws.com has address 52.71.250.248

mmhaque4-mohammedblog.rhcloud.com is an alias for ex-std-node772.prod.rhcloud.com.
ex-std-node772.prod.rhcloud.com is an alias for ec2-54-84-110-33.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
ec2-54-84-110-33.compute-1.amazonaws.com has address 54.84.110.33

wordpress-sbaray.rhcloud.com is an alias for ex-std-node689.prod.rhcloud.com.
ex-std-node689.prod.rhcloud.com is an alias for ec2-52-21-29-138.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
ec2-52-21-29-138.compute-1.amazonaws.com has address 52.21.29.138

ops635-senecacollege.rhcloud.com is an alias for ex-std-node594.prod.rhcloud.com.
ex-std-node594.prod.rhcloud.com is an alias for ec2-54-172-196-193.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
ec2-54-172-196-193.compute-1.amazonaws.com has address 54.172.196.193

Find geolocation from a given IP address

You can google it or try the following web site:

• www.iplocation.net

Weekly News

Week 2

• OpenSSH vulnerability
• Enable virsh console access to VM
• Virtualization Admin Guide

Week 3

• Open Virtualization Format
• OVF Specification version 2.1.1
• Beginner's Guide to IRC

Week 4

• Wednesday Presentation on GIT : Uzair Shamim
  • Free git book: Pro Git online and in PDF format
• Install the GeoIP package to track Geo location of a given IP.

To use GeoIP, try the following command:

[root@identity ~]# geoiplookup 142.204.1.2
GeoIP Country Edition: CA, Canada
GeoIP City Edition, Rev 1: CA, ON, Ontario, North York, M2M, 43.779701, -79.415604, 0, 0
GeoIP ASNum Edition: AS10265 Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology

• Friday Discussion: Enterprise Monitoring using Nagios
  • Nagios: Building Enterprise-Grade Monitoring Infrastructures for Systems and Networks, Second Edition

Week 5

• Wednesday Presentation on Puppet: Mohammed Haque
• Puppet Books:
  • Learning Puppet
  • Puppet 3 Beginner's Guide
• Puppet built-in Resource Type
• Monitoring OpenShift Cluster using Cockpit
• Getting Started with OpenShift: A Guide for Impatient Beginners (Free PDF file) *NOTE* This book is mainly for developers.
• OpenShift Origin Administration Guide - This is mainly for System Administrators.

Week 6

• Wednesday Presentation on Ansible: Samim Baray
• Ansible Books:
  • Ansible - Configuration Management 2nd Edition
• Ansible playbook for openshift-origin deployment:

[rchan@centos65 ~]$ git clone https://github.com/maxamillion/ansible-openshift_origin.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/rchan/ansible-openshift_origin/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 1412, done.
remote: Total 1412 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1412
Receiving objects: 100% (1412/1412), 235.16 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (572/572), done.

Week 7

• Working on Assignment 1 - OpenShift Origin installation and Monitoring. Please login to Blackboard for detail specification for Assignment 1

Week 8

• Online Mid-Term Test on March 9
• Assignment 1 Presentation on March 11

Week 9

• CentOS 7 Server administration