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Tag Archives: linux
How to Manually Create/Tune an Elasticsearch Index
The ELK stack provides a very powerful set of tools that allow administrators and developers unfettered access and customizable log aggregation across any manner of server, application or device. Recently I needed to stand up a new ELK stack on … Continue reading
Posted in open source, sysadmin
Tagged elasticsearch, elk, linux, logging, logstash, sysadmin
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Urban Terror: Fun, Free FPS Game
Urban Terror is a free first person shooter based on the Open Source Quake III engine that advertises itself as a “Hollywood tactical shooter.” It’s native for Linux, Mac and Windows like Enemy Territory, but uses realistic weapons, damage models … Continue reading
Posted in gaming, open source
Tagged free FPS, gaming, linux, linux gaming, open source, urban terror
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Play Enemy Territory! (Linux, Mac, Windows)
Enemy Territory is a free, Open Source multi-player first-person shooter video game set during World War II. It was created in 2003 by Splash Damage and runs great on low-end hardware. It features a well-designed class and progression system. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in gaming, open source
Tagged enemy territory, gaming, linux, linux gaming, open source, retro gaming
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Create vsftpd Users the Easy Way
The FTP protocol has been around a long time, some of us remember using it fondly while others might shudder at the very mention of its name. The fact remains it’s not going away, and it does what it’s supposed … Continue reading
Posted in open source, sysadmin
Tagged automation, ftp, linux, open source, sysadmin, vsftpd
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Take Control of your Email with Mutt, OfflineIMAP and Notmuch
I’ve been an avid user of the Mutt email client for quite some time, preferring it to GUI clients or web for its speed, hotkey-everything approach, and integration with vim that compliment my daily workflow. Still, I found search functionality … Continue reading
Posted in open source, sysadmin
Tagged email, gmail offlineimap mutt, linux, mutt, neomutt offlineimap linux, notmuch, notmuch mutt offlineimap, offlineimap, productivity, sysadmin
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Make OpenStack Glance Images Accessible to Selective Tenants
Recently I needed to make a Glance image available to a specific user but not make it public. In this example an image needed to be available only to the services tenant and owner. There’s a facility for this inside … Continue reading
Automating Dell iDRAC Administration with Racadm
Managing more than a handful of Dell servers becomes cumbersome using the iDRAC web interface. This is especially painful with several hundred servers or more. Luckily Dell provides CLI tools you can use with XML templates to automate provisioning and … Continue reading
Simple Disk Performance Testing with Linux
I recently did some testing on my home Linux fileserver with Bonnie++ at the urging of a friend who wanted to compare his numbers. I also ran similar tests with dd and hdparm. Here’s what I ran, the results, and … Continue reading
Using KWin with Xfce
I’ve been a long-time Xfce user as I’ve bounced around any manner of window manager and desktop environment since the turn of the century. I always found 3D effects like viewing all window spaces, and exposé-type features to be useful … Continue reading
Quickly Make Fedora Linux Fonts Glorious
As a previous user of the now defunct Infinality repo I was looking for something similar in Fedora 26+ and came across this COPR repository. This used to follow the infinality fonts guide but I’ve updated it for recent versions … Continue reading
OpenStack Essentials by Dan Radez
I’ve recently had the pleasure of helping edit/review the awesome OpenStack Essentials by my friend and colleague Dan Radez. Highly recommended reading for anyone getting into OpenStack who is interested in an easy-to-read deep dive of OpenStack, setting up your … Continue reading
Automated OpenStack Deployments with Foreman and Puppet
Demo of a large, 70 node bare-metal deployment we did at the Red Hat Summit in April 2014 showcasing an OpenStack Havana deployment via Puppet and Foreman. There are other tools for this now like StayPuft or most recently RDO-Manager … Continue reading
Posted in open source, standup
Tagged cloud, foreman, infrastructure, linux, openstack, puppet, sysadmin
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Create OpenStack Users the Easy Way
When you’ve created more than one OpenStack user via the CLI or Horizon dashboard it gets old really quick. It’s a good idea to automate it or use a tool to do the job for you.
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Tagged automation, cloud, devops, linux, openstack, shell, tool
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Secure Cloud Data Backups using Python, Tar and GPG
The Cloud (aka another dude’s computer) is a great place to backup your data, files and make your life easier and your technical resources more accessible. It can also be extremely dangerous if you don’t take steps to protect your … Continue reading
Workaround for Foreman-Proxy Scale Issue: DHCPD and lots of VM’s
Foreman is an awesome provisioning, utility and life-cycle management solution for Linux and UNIX-like server infrastructure. It unifies a lot of things like DHCP, DNS, PXE, and automated provisioning into one tool. Unfortunately we’ve hit some issues with scaling the … Continue reading
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Tagged dhcpd, foreman, foreman-proxy, infrastructure, linux, scale, sysadmin
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