Tool of the Month: Puppet
Puppet is a tool for configuring a large number of machines by recipe and periodically checking that they are still in conformance. I have fallen in love.
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tool of the month
FireFox Scrapbook Extension
This week’s tool: the Scrap Book extensionfor FireFox.
Quintensential Media Player (QMP)
QMP media player/ripper/library for Windows
RXVT
This week’s tool: RXVT
software
Simple S3 Backup script
Announcing availability of a simple program to backup the output of commands to Amazon S3 storage.
Introducing docker-xymon
In short: build and deploy this for instant monitoring. Seeing no viable containerization of the Xymon monitoring system (and the ‘net is large – I could h...
Raw Code
“Raw Code”, Lyrics by Dewey Sasser , with apologies to Dimitri Piomkin
git-for-svn
GIT for SVN users: An introduction
This is part of a series of posts about GIT for people with an SVN background. If you’re an experienced GIT user, my series of “GIT for SVN users” is likel...
GIT for SVN users: A simple Github workflow with multiple repositories
This is one article in my series on GIT for SVN users. See the introduction.
The problem with GIT
After a few months of using GIT, I realized one of my fundamental problems with git:
aws
Staying Sane with IaC
Infrastructure as Code is all the rage, but suffers the same problems as any other code: it can easily become an unmanageable plate of spaghetti.
Herding cats in the Cloud
I gave my “Herding Cats…” talk at the 2017 New England VTUG Winter Warmer.
Simple S3 Backup script
Announcing availability of a simple program to backup the output of commands to Amazon S3 storage.
shell
Runbook Framework
A new a shell framework to construct manual and automated runbooks
Markdown Toc
Introducing Markdown Tables of Contents.
Gnarly Sed
Last night I wrote a script to compute a Table of Contents for Markdown documents and insert it into the document. It handles both syntaxes for heading block...
linux
LVM2 and Linux boot delays
In which I learn that sufficient logical volumes and/or snapshots can make a default Ubuntu Server installation unbootable, but there’s a very simple fix.
Automount Snapshot
Summary: I present a method for transparently auto-creating lvm snapshots on use.
docker
Introducing docker-xymon
In short: build and deploy this for instant monitoring. Seeing no viable containerization of the Xymon monitoring system (and the ‘net is large – I could h...
docker-xymon
Introducing docker-xymon
In short: build and deploy this for instant monitoring. Seeing no viable containerization of the Xymon monitoring system (and the ‘net is large – I could h...
amazon
Simple S3 Backup script
Announcing availability of a simple program to backup the output of commands to Amazon S3 storage.
s3
Simple S3 Backup script
Announcing availability of a simple program to backup the output of commands to Amazon S3 storage.
devops
Herding cats in the Cloud
I gave my “Herding Cats…” talk at the 2017 New England VTUG Winter Warmer.
gcp
Google Next: Networking
Google thinks about networking in a way that is truly revolutionary.
crypto
The 2nd Crypto Wars
This has been invisible to most people, but we’re now in what I call the “2nd Crypto Wars”. This is important, and your world will be impacted by it.
git
Resetting a git-crypt system
The Problem
sed
Gnarly Sed
Last night I wrote a script to compute a Table of Contents for Markdown documents and insert it into the document. It handles both syntaxes for heading block...
tools
Markdown Toc
Introducing Markdown Tables of Contents.
sysadmin
Runbook Framework
A new a shell framework to construct manual and automated runbooks
automation
Runbook Framework
A new a shell framework to construct manual and automated runbooks
admin
Second System Effect Impacts Traefik
Traefik has changed everything, breaking TLS for this site. I’m not a fan of the redesign.