Can you easily export PowerDNS zones using a MySQL DB? The answer may not be as easy as it seems. I have been working on a Migration from PowerDNS using a MySQL DB. We have a custom solution which gets updated and gets pushed to Akamai. The problem is, this custom solution requires all the zones to be in bind format. Doing some research I found out there is no easy way to get these zones into a bind zone file.

With all this talk about VMware vs KVM I figured that I would attempt to load a base install of KVM to see what it was all about. Here is a quick vagrant runbook that will quickly get a 3 linux servers deployed and installed with KVM to play with. There are 3 nodes..MGMT01,KVM01 and KVM02. I use MGMT01 VMM to manage KVM01 and KVM02. The code can be found here.

So as I was getting around to trying to get a host platform setup for a Jekyll blog I was looking at an alternative to GitHub Pages. I decided I would run it on Ubuntu Server using NGINX as the web platform. Here is a quick vagrant runbook that will quickly get a linux server deployed and install NGINX to host your website. The code can be found here. The bootstrap_linux_nginx.