The last few weeks were a bit of a hive of activity. I went back to work, started a small business, and went from no-busy-at-all levels of work-related concentration to quite-busy-and-not-very-stressful-yet. I'm going to be doing more than just coaching, but that's for another time.
Earlier this year, I asked …
Category: Log Tagged: log life
Read MoreStandard disclaimer: Maybe don't do this in production? I hear Hashicorp also does a secret store :-)
Nomad 1.4.0 added support for 'variables', which are essentially key/value blobs protected by nomad's ACL system. As someone who had steadfastly avoided either running vault, or doing secrets properly, I knew …
Category: Tech Tagged: log #worksonmycluster tech
Read MoreFurther to my last post where I went away for a few weeks, that away-time featured a power cut at home. Things....did not come back cleanly, and required intervention to come back -- not least of which was DNS. Because of course.
My setup had been running DNS locally for …
Category: Tech Tagged: log #worksonmycluster tech
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A lot has happened over the last few months, so rather than a big catch-all post, I'm going to do a few posts over the next few weeks.
The last week or so have been my first 'in the office', so to speak, since March. As is patently obvious to …
Category: Log Tagged: log life motorcycle brains
Read MoreThe last several years have seen a huge upsurge in the popularity of the DevOps/SRE/Production Engineering model, with companies large and small adopting some of the practices and mindsets. One of the principal lessons many of these organisations (hopefully) learned was that it's close to impossible to adopt …
Category: Writing Tagged: writing sre
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