A few months further into my "not working full-time and seeing how that goes" journey.
I've picked up a contract for the consulting end of my 'job' since January, that'll likely last til the summer or thereabouts -- it'd been fun doing the good and useful parts of the job I …
Read MoreRecycling old talk proposals for fun and...that's it!
Here's an amalgamation of the proposal text and some notes from a talk I proposed for SRECon EMEA last year -- I'll be talking about this to the Dublin SRE meetup in a couple of weeks, so here it is while the …
Category: Writing Tagged: log writing
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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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