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Quick Recipes

Welcome to the Quick Recipes section. Here you will find fast solutions and copy-paste commands for common problems across the technologies we cover.

Ansible

Run a playbook with a specific inventory

ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini playbook.yml

Check connectivity with hosts

ansible all -m ping

Docker

Clean up unused containers and images

docker system prune -a

View a container's logs

docker logs <container_name>

Kubernetes

List pods across all namespaces

kubectl get pods --all-namespaces

Apply a YAML manifest

kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml

HAProxy

Reload the configuration with no downtime

sudo systemctl reload haproxy

View real-time statistics

echo "show stat" | socat stdio /var/run/haproxy.sock

Networking

Show the routing table

ip route show

Show network interfaces

ip addr show

Proxmox

Update the system

apt update && apt upgrade

Create a VM from the CLI

qm create 100 --name myvm --memory 2048 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0

OpenStack

List instances

openstack server list

Create a network

openstack network create mynetwork

Terraform

Initialize a directory

terraform init

Plan changes

terraform plan

Ceph

Check cluster health

ceph status

List OSDs

ceph osd tree

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