At some point, there will be a system change significant enough that a maintenance window needs to be scheduled with customers. But that doesn’t mean the end-user traffic or client integrations will stop requesting the services. What we need to present to end-users is a maintenance page during this outage to indicate the overall solution … GCP: Cloud Run/Function to handle requests to GKE cluster during maintenance
It is common for a virtualized Guest OS base image to have a generic minimal storage capacity. But this capacity can easily be exceeded by production scenarios, performance testing, logging, or even the general cruft of running a machine 24×7. For this reason, extending a virtualized disk can be extremely helpful. Here is a walk … Ubuntu: Extending a virtualized disk using fdisk when not using LVM
Before virtualization, there was a stronger argument for using a swap partition instead of a swap file for servers. A fragmented swap file could lead to performance issues that a statically sized and placed partition did not have consider. But once virtualization comes into play, unless you go to great lengths to segment your storage … Ubuntu: Using a swap file instead of swap partition for virtualized server VMs