Scaleway quietly did something that will make a certain class of developers disproportionately happy: it added initial support for a HashiCorp Waypoint plugin in its Containers product changelog. That sounds like a small line item—and it is—but it also signals a bigger theme: cloud platforms keep trying to make “deploying an app” feel boringly consistent,…
The Future Is Modular: What a Decade of Running Kubernetes Teaches Us About Platform Engineering
Kubernetes is 10+ years old now, which in technology years means it’s old enough to have strong opinions about observability stacks, security baselines, and whether “platform” is a product or a philosophical argument you have at 2 a.m. during an incident. In February 2026, Giant Swarm published a short but pointed piece arguing that the…
Amazon EC2 X8i is Generally Available: Custom Intel Xeon 6, Up to 6TB RAM, and Why Memory Bandwidth Suddenly Matters Again
AWS has a long tradition of releasing EC2 instance families that sound like they were named by a committee with a Scrabble addiction. But every now and then, the letters actually signal something meaningful: a shift in what the cloud is optimizing for. This week’s example is the new Amazon EC2 X8i family, now generally…
Exploring Scaleway’s Initial Support for the Waypoint Plugin
Introduction to Scaleway’s Waypoint Plugin In a world where containerization is taking over the development realms, keeping up with the latest innovations is paramount for developers. Recently, Scaleway has unveiled initial support for the Waypoint plugin, adding another feather to their cap of DevOps solutions. But what does this mean for tech enthusiasts and developers…
The latest Netvitesse SSO
The latest Netvitesse SSO with Thinclients and dynamic extensions to the Mitel Desktop Phones with Citrix 6.5 and now lock and unlock is supported. The process is simple the phone is registered automaticly to the Single Signon Server and the Citrix session initiates the logon process for the user on the desktop Phone. Used :…
Vmware tools in Cpanel
To add VMware tools to the Cpanel VPS server. Click on the client to install VMware tools. mkdir /media/cdrom mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom cd /tmp tar –xf /media/cdrom/VM* cd vm* perl vmware-install.pl
‘/sbin/ifup vswif0’ suceeded, but returned with non-zero status: 1″ on ESX Service Console
“‘/sbin/ifup vswif0’ suceeded, but returned with non-zero status: 1” on ESX Service Console Issue When trying to configure the IP address or enable a Service Console the following error may appear: # esxcfg-vswif -e vswif0 Error trying to perform operation Exec of command ‘/sbin/ifup vswif0’ suceeded, but returned with non-zero status: 1 In addition the…
Enable VMware EVC IBM Blades
There are a lot of questions how to enable Vmware EVC on IBM blades. Here the configuration how to on a IBM HS21 blade : 1. Go to Bios : F1 2. Go to : Advanced Setup. 3. Go to CPU Options …
Host in HA Cluster must have userworld swap enabled
Error when enabling HA on ESX 3.5 i servers : Host in HA Cluster must have userworld swap enabled This error you get from a lack of storage reservation for saving the HA settings on the ESX3.5i. You can set this using the following procedure. To enable swap on your ESXi 3 host system: On the VirtualCenter Server,…
VMDK Resize
Virtuele windows 2003 test Server even te weinig disk ruimte, dit is erg makkelijk te verhelpen door de disk te expand’en. even kort beschreven hoe ik dit doe. Let op : Eigen risico, dus maak een backup.