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What It Looks Like To Build Automation From Scratch →
I've happily made a career out of writing code to do interesting things with server, network, and application infrastructure, and in that time I've found the signal-to-noise ratio of the common post/tweet/gist has been wildly lopsided in favor of people throwing often-incomplete or inaccurate script...
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Disaster Recovery, Hold the Recover (Part 2) →
This is the continuation from Disaster Recovery, Hold the Recovery (Part 1). In this part, I'll talk about some of the steps I took to start recovering and improving my systems after the events of Part 1.
Initial Recovery
Following a series of cascading failures, I had discovered some severe...
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Disaster Recovery, Hold the Recovery (Part 1) →
Around two weeks ago I had the experience of testing my disaster readiness in my home lab. To my surprise, I found it sorely lacking, which means that the circumstances, shortcomings, and fallout make a perfect candidate for a post on how not to manage your infrastructure.
Buckle up, because th...
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Grav: Thoughts and Observations →
This will probably be a shorter post than usual, but since the original purpose of building this site was to experiment and play around with Grav, I thought it was worth a quick post to cover what I think of it now that I've been using it for awhile. And I do mean quick - this hasn't undergone the...
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The Discovery Process →
I sat down tonight and decided to tinker with a new tool called Ansible Doctor, and it struck me that maybe that was a good topic for a post. I also realized, however, that it might make sense to make another post laying out how I go about this sort of stuff, partially so I can just link to this...
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An Edge Case for Jenkins Shared Libraries →
I recently ran into an interesting problem with Jenkins which I thought was fitting for a write-up: shared pipeline development. This is probably an edge case, and I won't claim to have nailed the exact perfect solution to it, but hopefully by putting my thought process down on paper, someone search...