Avoiding Technical Debt Without Sacrificing Forward Momentum
High pressure to deliver new features and rapidly iterate on your product can lead to…
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My Focusmate experiment
I've recently been experimenting with Focusmate, a virtual co-working platform designed to boost productivity through 25 or 75-minute sessions with a randomly chosen work partner. Here are three sessions I experienced on the platform, along with some insights.…
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Pipx, the brew for python based Applications 🍻🐍
... Pipx provides easy installation and isolation of any python application that you can run from the commandline i.E. the `python-openstack` client, `ansible`, `salt`, `cookiecutter`, `black` and many more...…
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Tips and Resources for writing better Shell Scripts
Here are some helpful Tips & Resources you can use to write better shell scripts ;)…
Read moreConfigure ssh bastion host for many connections.
If we where to run a Ansible Playbook on a lot of Machines via a…
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SSH Bastion/Jumphost + Ansible configuration.
In this article I describe how I setup, configure and use my Linux Workstation and SSH Bastion/Jumphosts for maximimum awesomness and ease of use…
Read moreHow to detect and activate hot added MEMORY, CPU and DISK resources
Sometimes hot added MEMORY, CPU and DISK resources are not detected right away by Linux,…
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Starting Galera Cluster node fails due to Systemd `TimeoutStartSec`
I recently had a Problem where adding a Galera Cluster node, after a failure, failed and left me with a broken and out of Sync node that was not able to recover by simply starting the Service via `systemctl start mysql.service`...…
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How to use Vagrant for Ansible role testing and development
In this article I describe why and how I use Vagrant for testing while developing new Ansible roles and how you can make your live a little easier with Vagrant and Ansible.…
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print("Hello World")
My name is Christian, and this is the obligatory introductory post to set the stage for my Blog.…
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