With Oh-My-Vagrant (omv) you can set up a dev environment in seconds. (Read the omv introduction if you’ve never used it before!) Since everything is defined in a single omv.yaml file, it is easy to share your cluster prototype with … Continue reading
Here are two quick git tricks that I’ve added to my toolbox lately… I wanted to create a git alias that takes in argv from the command, but in the middle of the command. Here’s the hack that I came … Continue reading
Vagrant is a great tool for development, but Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) customers have typically been left out, because it has been impossible to get RHEL boxes! It would be extremely elegant if hackers could quickly test and prototype … Continue reading
You might want to write code that can tell how many iterations have passed since some action occurred. Alternatively, you might want to know if it’s the first time a machine has run Puppet. To do these types of things, … Continue reading
The fact that we manage the switches in our data centres differently than any other server is patently absurd, but we do so because we want to harness the power of a tiny bit of silicon which happens to be … Continue reading
I had an itch to scratch, and I wanted to get a bit more familiar with Openshift. I had used it in the past, but it was time to have another go. The app and the code are now available. … Continue reading
If you’re a reader of my code or of this blog, it’s no secret that I hack on a lot of puppet and vagrant. Recently I’ve fooled around with a bit of docker, too. I realized that the vagrant, environments … Continue reading
Seagate has just publicly announced 8TB HDD’s in a 3.5″ form factor. I decided to do some rough calculations to understand the density a bit better… Note: I have decided to ignore the distinction between Terabytes (TB) and Tebibytes (TiB), since … Continue reading
Vagrant has become the de facto tool for devops. Faster iterations, clean environments, and less overhead. This isn’t an article about why you should use Vagrant. This is an article about how to get up and running with Vagrant on … Continue reading
This is a quick trick for making working with git submodules more magic. One day you might find that using git submodules is needed for your project. It’s probably not necessary for everyday hacking, but if you’re glue-ing things together, … Continue reading
