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I’m playing with Fedora Atomic and containers a lot lately and for fun decided to install Artifactory(binary repository server). Jfrog(The makers of Artifactory) have an easy container install using ‘curl’. Perfect! Following their instructions I copied the command line arguments to install with curl:

For example Terraform doesn’t validate hostname or password values that are to short. Instead your Windows 10 VM will simply fail. If you enable boot logging you will get a black screen with OOBE error.

I’m working a project to create Python program that scrapes jobs from a Jenkins server, with the end goal of storing them in a Mongo NoSQL database as an archive.  At work we have more than a dozen build servers that will ultimately will be consolidated to a few.  My plan(since we are moving to […]

  I recently came across an annoying issue with CentOS 7 setup.  I started with a minimal install, completed my installation(including mate desktop) and rebooted.  When I attached to the console of the newly minted VM I discovered it was stuck at a license prompt.  To avoid this issue…

  I’m in the process of converting my Fabric PBX automated installation to an Ansible playbook, but I got stuck on the user module portion.  I want to pass a default password to user accounts.  Ansible’s user module requires the crypted SHA512 hash rather than taking a password.  In other words, instead of supplying a […]

Python’s Fabric module makes automation easy.  This post shows how to use a Fabric script to backup a WordPress installation, but could be used for most LAMP backup situations! Goals of this Post: backup SQL to /tmp backup WEB ROOT to /tmp tar SQL + site & zip download delete /tmp

Recently table top gaming has made a huge comeback.  For the first time in 20 years my friends and I are role playing!  We agreed on the new Star Wars RPG by Fantasy Flight games, STAR WARS: Age of Rebellion role playing game.  It’s novel in many aspects compared to the previous D6 and D20 […]

Python’s Fabric module is an easy and efficient way for task based automation.  I use it to automate the installation of VoIP phone systems on CentOS 6/7.  In a nut shell, Fabric executes shell commands over SSH.  It also can be used to automate local tasks.  The purpose of this article is to highlight the […]

I love Git.  I find Git to be an intuitive way to track many versions between many systems.  Now all my default config files and scripts utilize Git.  However, logging into a server and creating the Git repo, then cloning it is a number of steps that detracts from getting work done.   This tutorial […]

Git has changed my life.  I’m not exaggerating.  I work with a lot of ‘one off’ scripts (BASH, PHP, and Python).  They are spread out among systems and developed from my workstation and(sometimes) laptop.  I spent 15 years keeping multiple versions and copies of the same scripts spread between systems.  Looking back it seems Crazy! […]