Ansible-Pull is a great way to configure your servers at build time. I use the Red Hat Kickstart method of building a server, so configuration using ansible is just one line in the post installation portion of the kickstart file: ansible-pull -d /tmp/ansprod_repo -U git://ansible.nyc.mizuhocap.com/ansprod-pull These are the steps necessary for using ansible-pull: * The […]
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Snorkeling, Hsu Tung Han, wood carving, ’17
It’s incredible how creative and talented some people can be.
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Happy SysAdmin Day!
http://sysadminday.com/ SysAdmin Day July 28, 2017 – 18th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day
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Joel Zimmerman (DeadMau5), one of my favorite artists has an incredible technology setup at his home. here’s a great mix you can listen to when you’re done drooling over the tech
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Spacewalk – get the info you need
Spacewalk is the opensource 5.5 version of the Red Hat Satellite Server (which is now at version 6.x). It is a way to manage OS software from a centralized repository to a distributed inventory. The spacewalk server connects to an upstream repository (CentOS 7 for instance), and copies the software to the local network. You […]
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WTF is an SRE
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a discipline that incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies that to operations whose goals are to create ultra-scalable and highly reliable software systems A site reliability engineer (SRE) will ideally spend up to 50% of their time doing “ops” related work such as issues, on-call, and manual intervention. Since […]
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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering
DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering I’ve been around for a really long time. It was about 5 or 6 years ago that I started hearing the term DevOps. I wasn’t sure what to make of it, but I assumed it was a systems administrator that wrote code to automate tasks. It was basically what I’ve […]
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