In this post I will go through the full fresh installation of Atlassian on Centos7. I have fresh Centos installation which I will dedicate it to Bitbucket server. I will also use PostgreSQL as database. Atlassian has a guide for this but it is very generic to cover all possible combinations and doesn’t go into the details of installation and configuration of database. This post will have all you need to know on how to install Atlassian Bitbucket on Centos 7 in one place.
How to clone a virtual machine in ESXi 6
Background
Here I will go through the steps to clone a virtual machine in ESXi 6. This is especially useful to create a base operating system with minimal requirements and environment personal customisation and then save the virtual disk for future use. Whenever you need a new system you can use this pre-configured system and not starting from scratch.
memory expansion over a decade
Today I received my new NUC from Amazon. It is an Intel nuc5i5ryk. I will be using it to deploy my test servers for the Atlassian Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket servers and a bunch of other services inside virtual machines.
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