November 21 2023
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 …
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WOMC: Nomad Variables as Secrets
Standard 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 …
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Offsiting DNS for Fun and Profit
Further 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 …
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October 20 2023
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 …
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June 19 2023
My last few weeks have ended up with me having about 30% of my regular day-job meeting/stuff-I-gotta-do load; due to a perfect storm of school stuff and other adventures (I'm currently collecting driving license categories! Trailer learner permit coming and sitting some theory tests for Truck license).
Other adventures …
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