Further adventures in pretending homelab is real work!
This week, I've actually been hacking on getting restic running semi-regularly. It turns out (or at least, I've found by experimentation) that the way nomad does scheduled/periodic jobs means that the periodic jobs don't have access to variables the core job …
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Read MoreI've been gradually rolling out more homelab updates, including whats turned into a bit of a rebuild and de-flakiness effort. Nothing like a bit of sunlight to realise that things need a proper looking at :-)
It's also been pretty good for my brain, I think -- having the benefit of really …
Category: Log Tagged: log #worksonmycluster
Read MoreNow that I've a bit more time on my hands (more on that later) the predictable swing back toward being able to do actual tech fiddling has started (I Hope).
I've been running nomad from Hashicorp as the compute coordinator for my home setup for a couple of years now …
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It's November! That most wonderful time of the year when your brain and being need a little more maintenance.
Part of my maintenance schedule is taking the worsening weather as a prompt to feel less guilty about not going outside and doing outside things -- i.e. getting to coding and …
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Read MoreI spent a number of days at SRECon 2022 in Amsterdam, and gave a talk that I'd had rattling around in my head for a wee while - roughtly based on a paper I left at Google when I left.
Laura was good enough to suggest it as a ;login: article …
Category: Writing Tagged: log writing oncall sre
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