Playing with APIs and Python Most cloud based software these days allows you to programmatically interact with it's API. It's essential to automation! For example let's say you built an embedded software on a convertible. You want the
Zabbix Monitoring - Part 2 - Paging on call... Now that Zabbix is up and monitoring your systems lets start thinking about how it's going to send it's alerts and some self healing capilities. If you haven't read part one, you can
freebsd Configuring FreeBSD for Infrastructure FreeBSD is a robust operating system that has its roots in the Bell Laboratories Unix Operating System. Technically, FreeBSD is derived from the BSD, Berkeley Software Distribution Unix. Now that you're all caught
SSH Security - Using Public Keys to Connect to a Remote Server Hello therollBak friends, in our security conscious world even passwords are not secure. Let's face it, if someone finds your password they can impersonate you and log into multiple systems using your credentials.
Docker & Kubernetes Part 2 with Minikube Greetings earthlings! And non-earthlings. Last time we spoke about Docker and Kubernetes was very brief. Today we're going to dive into running Kubernetes as your orchestration tool.Speaking of orchestration, what is this?
Networking 101 - Static Routes One of the most basic and fundamental routing are static routes. Tonight I'll show you how to configure a static route from the Green Network to the Red Network using Cisco Packet Tracer.
Docker & Kubernetes Part 1 Containerization is taking over the world, and we owe it all to LXC... oops, I mean Docker (heh heh heh). Anyways, moving on. With the Docker Engine comes the ability to create containers.
systems DevOps Toolchain: Installing Jenkins Hey everyone! Today we're going to setup Jenkins on a RHEL style (CentOS) server. What is Jenkins, you might be asking? From the source:"The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds
systems DevOps Toolchain: Infrastructure as Code Part 2 Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed the first round of Terraform goodness. We're going to round it off today with some juicy AWS deployments and getting our Terraform state files up on S3.
linux Kickstart with Kickstart Hello everyone! Today we're going to discuss getting started with automated installs. Primarily via Kickstart! One of my good buddies, a co-host, a bff (I LOVE YOU PHIL) was asking me what I
code Windows Tip of the Week: Remote Server Development Visual Studio 2017 offers a really cool feature set of cross platform development. You can build systems to run on Linux while using Visual Studio. How? When setting up Visual Studio, be sure
DevOps Tools on Solus Hey everyone! Today we're going to dive into Solus. Solus is a Linux operating system that uses the latest kernel and is always up to date. Their promise "Install today, update forever" holds
Installing Ansible Tower One of my favorite tools is Ansible. Ansible is a configuration management/Infrastructure as Code/Magic tool that allows you to do, well... pretty much anything you want. Feel like starting a service
systems DevOps ToolChain: Infrastructure as Code Pt. 1 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become increasingly important in the world of software and systems engineering. If you've heard the acronym or expression, you probably have an idea of what it is. The
Nginx Reverse Proxy & Load Balancer Today we’re going to be talking about reverse proxy/load balancing with Nginx. Why is this important? It comes down to not wanting your web apps to have one single point of
LEMP stack (minus the PHP) Today we’re going to be talking about building a LEMP stack! Many of you may be familiar with LAMP stacks (Linux Apache MySQL PHP). A LEMP stack is Linux, Nginx, MySQL and
DevOps Toolchain Part 0 This is the first segment in a series that we'll title "DevOps Toolchain". For most, DevOps isn't just a thing or a title, but a culture. In a sense, it is
code Python Sandbox: Django On the sixth episode of season 3, we spoke about PyCharm and command line virtual environments using Python. If any of you are interested in that discussion, this post is for you! Wanting
linux Want to Try Linux? Hello everyone. You may have heard us speak positively on the show about using Linux as a desktop operating system. Mike has gone to the dark side, Phil has a few distros rolling
Zabbix Monitoring - Part 1 - The Install Theory Zabbix is an enterprise monitoring software flexible enough for a wide range of monitoring use. For this setup I will break up the various components of Zabbix. Why? Stability and to avoid
cloud Post-Mortem Hopefully none of you are saying "Wow, this site kind of looks different than before..." I'm sure a couple of you are, however. July 17, at approximately 20:58, I, Chris