A few months ago I implemented an RDO based openstack kilo release private cloud at one of our customers for their development platform. Through time we tackled a couple of issues so the cloud could be fitted into their work flows.

We stumbled onto some minor issues and some major ones. Let's begin with the minor ones ;)

When upgrading the all-in-one controller before we started using the cloud in 'production' a mean bug bit us in the ankle due to a new hiera package. After some digging around a patch came to the rescue together with the exclusion of the …

Nowadays it becomes more and more relevant knowing which version of a package is installed and having an overview of the packages infected by some bugs or security holes. That way you could see which servers are possibly vulnerable for those on the dark side.

That's where pakiti comes in a clean web based overview of your servers listing all packages vulnerable against the CVE in particular.

It's a client server setup where the client reports the version of the packages to the pakiti server. The server on his turn checks those versions against CVE to see if there are …

Reading this article will go through the process I went through configuring multiple dropbox accounts on my centos machine (one personal and one for work) and encrypting them both using encfs.

That way I'm sure dropbox can't read the data stored into it. Because no I don't trust anybody on the cloud!

In the first part I will configure 2 dropbox services using a CentOS 6 Desktop, in the second part I will encrypt those 2 dropbox services using encfs.

The first account you can just install and configure the normal way provided by dropbox itself. Here I configured my …

The most recommended permissions for files and directories on the web are 0755 and 0644. If you have shell access to your webserver you can set those permissions using those commands:

find -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755
find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644