Today, we brought node5.brq online, the first vpsAdminOS node in Brno.
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Jakub Skokan
VPS rescue mode: boot a recovery operating system
vpsAdmin now lets you boot a VPS from a clean template system, bypassing the system on its disk. It is something like booting a live CD.
vpsAdmin updates: default VPS features and OOM reports
Another round of improvements from vpsAdmin development. Managing VPSes is now easier, more features are enabled by default, and DNS resolver management is better.
vpsAdminOS in production in Prague
We have our first production node running vpsAdminOS in Prague: node1.prg.
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vpsAdminOS development, NFS on staging, the overlay2 driver for Docker and more
Here is another update on the move to vpsAdminOS and what we have been working on since the last report in June. It has been a while, so this is... a longer one. The most important news comes first.
Revising distribution templates: openSUSE, Slackware and Void Linux on staging
We are gradually preparing to move to the new vpsAdminOS container platform. That also involves the template system.
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Six months of vpsAdminOS development: closer to launching a production server
TL;DR: migrating production VPSes is still a long way off, but we're closer to launching a production node. We're gradually improving staging; outages are less frequent, and we announce them in advance. Anyone who wants or needs to can already run a VPS there. It still isn't production, though.
Two-factor login to vpsAdmin for better security
To protect our members, we are introducing two-factor authentication in vpsAdmin using TOTP.
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Terraform provider for vpsAdmin: automate infrastructure management
We have our own Terraform module that currently creates and modifies VPSes on our infrastructure, uploads public SSH keys and runs commands over SSH.
Try cloning production VPSes to the vpsAdminOS test environment
Testing our vpsAdminOS platform is entering another significant phase: you can clone production VPSes from OpenVZ to staging with vpsAdminOS.
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