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Tag Archives: sysadmin
How to Setup Travis for Quick Ansible Playbook CI
If you’re looking for a quick, easy way to setup repository-based CI for your Ansible playbooks on Github consider Travis CI, it’s also a breeze to set-up for larger projects and not that involved. This takes around 10 minutes to … Continue reading
Distributed Remote Backups with Git and Etckeeper
Git is a powerful tool for lots of tasks, it makes a wonderful VCS that can drive easy utility and automation. Recently I used git and remote repositories to deploy code & data fanned out to multiple locations. Here are … Continue reading
Posted in open source, sysadmin
Tagged devops, etckeeper, etckeeper linux guide, git, linux, linux git backups, linux git branches, remote, sysadmin
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Shell One-liners and Quick and Dirty Loops
Sometimes you just need to get stuff done quickly and there’s nary a replacement better than a quick shell one-liner. Recently I’ve needed to feed some large, multi-variable commands into an external program for processing. Here’s some simple shell one-liners … Continue reading
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Tagged bash, for loop, linux, loops, shell, shell example linux, shell examples, shell linux examples, sysadmin, useful shell linux tip
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Combat Unsolicited Sales with a Unique Office Voice Mail Recording
Office voice mail has become a graveyard for unwanted sales solicitations for things I don’t need. People who need to reach me have many available methods. I’ve decided to take some creative liberties with my voice mail recording and you … Continue reading
Fun and Automation with Git Hooks
Git is more than just an awesome, decentralized version control system (VCS) – it can also drive lots of useful automation by triggering actions to deploy infrastructure and services based on event and commit-based hooks. You can drive a lot … Continue reading
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Tagged automation, devops, git, git hooks, linux, post-receive hooks, sysadmin
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Automate SuperMicro Server Provisioning or Die Trying
We use Foreman for systems provisioning and recently received a large shipment of Supermicro for Ceph. Out of the box they were a lot of trouble to get integrated/automated at the same level of our Dell gear but we managed, … Continue reading
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Tagged devops, foreman, hardware, ipmi, linux, provisioning, servers, supermicro, sysadmin
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Tmux for GNU Screen Refugees and Vim Users
I use GNU Screen on servers to manage working sessions and perform long-running or persistent tasks. Lately I’ve been using tmux locally on my work desktop/laptop, finding it better suited for most terminal activity. Here’s how I set it up … Continue reading
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Tagged linux, productivity, screen, sysadmin, terminal, tmux
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Automate Nagios Monitoring with Ansible
Infrastructure monitoring is important and there’s lots of tools for it. I’m fond of Nagios – it’s very mature and customizable but it’s also a giant pain in the ass to setup. Here’s how to save time deploying and managing … Continue reading
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Tagged ansible, automation, devops, idrac monitoring, ipmi, linux, monitoring, nagios, snmp, supermicro monitoring, sysadmin
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Secure, Distributed Password Resources with GPG, Git and Vim
There are many tools to manage passwords and sensitive resources, some cost money or are closed commercial products. I’m going to show you how to create a secure, distributed and encrypted remote password repository using Open Source tools like GPG … Continue reading
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Tagged encryption, gpg, linux, passwords, security, sysadmin
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Quick and Dirty Remote Execution with Ansible
Ansible is a wonderful tool for orchestration, configuration management and automating a lot of tasks you’d never want to do by hand. Sometimes you just need to get in there and run a few commands across a bunch of different … Continue reading
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Tagged ansible, devops, linux, remote execution, shell module, sysadmin
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Manage Test/Development Linux VMs with qcow2 and Libvirt
I often need to quickly revert virtual machines used for testing to a known good, vanilla state without doing anything by hand. QEMU provides a great set of tools to help. Here’s a simple tool to wrap all of it … Continue reading
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Tagged automation, development, libvirt, linux, open source, sandbox, sysadmin, testing, virtualization
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Trick out your Vim Editor
I’ve been a long-time vim user, dating back to when I figured out how to exit the damn thing. Over the years I’ve tried various vimrc configurations, plugins and looks and even other editors but I’ve always come back to … Continue reading
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Tagged code completion, iTerm2, linux, open source, OSX Vim, sysadmin, vim, vim plugins
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Automate Deployment of the ELK/EFK Stack with Ansible
I recently needed to completely automate deploying a full ELK/EFK stack and clients and didn’t find anything that suited my needs so I wrote the playbooks for this in Ansible. This was my first real foray into automation with Ansible, … Continue reading
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Tagged ansible, automation, devops, elasticsearch, elk, kibana, linux, logging, logstash, sysadmin
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OpenStack Summit 2016 – Trystack, the free OpenStack Sandbox
Following onto the previous Trystack.org talk at Devconf 2016, we presented at the 2016 Austin OpenStack Summit. Following the same format as the previous talk we covered some exciting updates around RDO Liberty/Mitaka, OpenStackID integration, datacenter hardware and network upgrades/expansion … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud, developers, linux, openstack, openstack summit, sysadmin, trystack
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Trick out your Terminal
Here are some useful ways to enhance your operating system shell environment. The first will give you a permanent bash history that’s up to date and doesn’t require a logout to update command history, nor does it get reset. The … Continue reading