When using GitLab and the CI/CD for building docker images you may stumble on such error using the “docker:dind” (dind stands for docker in docker)…
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Install CentOS 8 over the old OS and preserve the storage partitions
Always put your root partition separate from the storage (aka data) partitions. root partition should be only for system files and nothing more! Keeping this…
Install gitlab-ce (community edition) in docker container with HTTPS and docker registry
This article is a howto install of the official docker gitlab-ce (GitLab Community Edition). GitLab maintains a docker image in the Docker registry and this…
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Preparing the preseed for unattended installation sometimes could be challenging. This article presents the right way to analyze an installation failure in one of the…
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Recently, there was a little bit of confusion when following the article about activating network bonding without ifenslave – How to enable Linux bonding without…
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This article shows what files to add if you want to add a bonding interface under CentOS 8 without invoking the Network manager command utility….
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This article is how to install aptly software, which offers easy Debian repository management. First, few words for aptly and what tasks are really simple…
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Booting the CentOS 8 failed with dracut-initqueue timeout and could not boot – warning /dev/disk/by-id/md-uuid- does not exist we have an article on the subject…
Gentoo – updating perl and problems like perl-core/ is blocking virtual/perl-
When upgrading Perl under Gentoo it’s almost typical to have blocks of the kind: These blocks appeared when we tried updaring the Perl 5.26 to…
Install Cobbler 2.6 under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS from Cobbler source – manual intallation
This article will show how to install Cobbler 2.6.11 (the last from the 2.6 branches) under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. There is Cobbler package version 2.4.x…