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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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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Work From Home (WFH)
http://www.midnightdba.com/Jen/2017/05/employers-let-people-work-home/ I miss working from home. I did it full-time for three years. OK, I occasionally do it now too, but it has to be for a particular reason. In all honesty, I actually probably get more done at home than in the office. I have a super home office with everything I need including […]
Continue ReadingAnsible – perform an action ONLY if something changes
I found this article: “Ansible – Only do something if another action changed” Great article – In my case I wanted to change the /etc/postfix/main.cf file on a lot of my servers. When the file changes, you have to restart the postfix service. I was able to use the “register” directive as described in the […]
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Solaris 11.next coming
Solaris 12 disappears from Oracle’s roadmap • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/18/solaris_12_disappears_from_oracles_roadmap/
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Sandra Henry-Stocker
Sandra Henry-Stocker is one of my favorite UNIX/Linux authors. Her articles are both well written and technical with lots of examples Here’s her latest about finding processes with PGREP: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3174284/linux/sniffing-out-processes-using-pgrep.html
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Ansible
I’ve been learning Ansible for a new roll I’ll be starting next month. Over the last few years I’ve looked at a number of Configuration Management tools (I’m talking about you Puppet and Blade Logic). I didn’t love Puppet, and Blade Logic was OK. I’m really starting to appreciate how simple Ansible is. Kick off […]
Continue ReadingSet up a Debian Linux repository + package maintenance
I had a conversation about setting up a Debian Linux repository today – I’m a redhat guy, so I had to look it up .. here it is: https://wiki.debian.org/SettingUpSignedAptRepositoryWithReprepro Good stuff! BONUS: I use FPM to create RPM packages for RedHat – you can use the same tool for creating deb packages for debian. So […]
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