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Linux Containers – LXD – Try it online

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/22

Cool: live container for some 20 minutes usage at [WayBack/Archive.is] Linux Containers – LXD – Try it online.

Via: [WayBack] New European Data Protection Law coming soon! Beginning with May, 25 you’re no longer allowed to host private data outside the EC, e.g. in the U.S. or … – Joe C. Hecht – Google+

–jeroen

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Getting rid of Docker plain text credentials – Hacker Noon

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/29

For my research list: [WayBack] Getting rid of Docker plain text credentials – Hacker Noon

Repository at [WayBack] GitHub – docker/docker-credential-helpers

–jeroen

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My other computer is a data center Stickers and T-shirts — DevStickers

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/30

Want : [WayBackMy other computer is a data center Stickers and T-shirts — DevStickers

Via: [WayBack] Ich trage schon seit dem Studium schon keine Uhr mehr, weil ich meine Existenz vor NTP-fähigen Geräten zubringe, von denen die meisten nebenbei bemerkt … – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Related: [WayBack] Urs Hölzle – Google+ My other computer is a data center

–jeroen

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Nick Craver – Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment – 2016 Edition

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/18

It sounds long ago, but this post is still so relevant for anyone not yet bringing operations and development close together. And for those who did:

  • automate the heck out of everything
  • make lots of mistakes as early as possible so you can fix them before the hit any of your production sites

[WayBackNick Craver – Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment – 2016 Edition

The relevance is why Nick repeated it in 2018 in a response to a @ThePracticalDev discussion right after the first Falcon Heavy deployment, and why I repeat it now.

–jeroen

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Swap and Memory Pressure: How Developers think to how Operations people think – The Isoblog.

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/21

Still a very insightful read: [WayBack] Swap and Memory Pressure: How Developers think to how Operations people think – The Isoblog.

I totally agree with the view Kristian Köhntopp presents which I usually call “fail early, fail hard, fail clearly”.

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] Swap and Memory Pressure: How Developers think vs. how Operations people think. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

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multi-headed

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/14

A long time ago, I named a tool Cerberus after the mythical multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld, as it was to inspect client systems configurations to prevent they would enter a bad state.

Since I need a multi-headed tool later on, below are some links on multi-headed (Polycephaly – Wikipedia) creatures to give me inspiration.

Some of them are centered around war, others around hell, are dragons or monsters, and a few are guardians. Later I will try to put a classification in a table or so.

The idea is to replace my current Apache TLS offloading (that uses letsencrypt/certbot for the certificates) with something else like an nginx one, and maybe even make the internal part TLS too (so it becomes TLS upstreaming) so these will come in useful too:

Instead of nginx, HAproxy might be a an option too, especially as it understands TCP traffic other than http much better than nginx:

This means I should first look into nginx vs haproxy – Google Search, for instance these posts:

–jeroen

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GitHub – Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds: A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire temporary AWS credentials

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/27

Since I will likely need something like this one day: [WayBackGitHub – Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds: A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire temporary AWS credentials

I think I got this via Kristian Köhntopp a while ago.

–jeroen

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Incidents, fixes, and the day after – Booking.com Infrastructure – Medium

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/11

In larger teams, to handle Incidents, fixes, and the day after – Booking.com Infrastructure – Medium [WayBack] you escalate it through a set of carefully chosen phases.

  1. Starting the escalation
  2. Gathering the firefighters
  3. Going back to business
  4. Closing the escalation
  5. Working towards the permanent solution
  6. Postmortem retrospective

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] Incident Handling und der Tag danach (Booking.com) – – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

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Why prod is down…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/18

From [WayBack] imgur: Why Prod is Down

Downloads:

Via:

–jeroen

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Fabric, Cuisine and Watchdog for server administration in Python

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/05

For my reading list: [WayBackFabric, Cuisine and Watchdog for server administration in Python.

It’s about these environments and tools:

–jeroen

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