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Top 20ish Records of 2020
Records

Top 20ish Records of 2020

A little late, but there are my top 20 records of 2020, as per previous years these are all ones which I have purchased on vinyl. bdrmm ‎- BedroomDoves ‎-

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 22 Jan 2021 • 2 min read
Managing Python on macOS Big Sur
macOS

Managing Python on macOS Big Sur

Getting my preferred local Python installation method working in macOS Big Sur

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 10 Jan 2021 • 2 min read
Ansible, Azure and macOS Big Sur
Ansible

Ansible, Azure and macOS Big Sur

Running Ansible and the Azure Collection on macOS Big Sur is a little troublesome at the moment, so here is an alternative.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 28 Dec 2020 • 3 min read
Migrating my Docker images to the GitHub Container Registry
Docker

Migrating my Docker images to the GitHub Container Registry

After the Docker Hub announcement about retention I decided to move all of my container images to GitHub Container Registry.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 27 Sep 2020 • 6 min read
GitHub Codespaces and Terraform
GitHub

GitHub Codespaces and Terraform

To get myself familiar with GitHub Codespaces, the online IDE based on Visual Studio Code, I decided to create a quick Terraform project.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 20 Sep 2020 • 3 min read
Azure DevOps Terraform Pipeline
Terraform

Azure DevOps Terraform Pipeline

In my last post I wrote about how I created an Azure DevOps pipeline using Ansible in a more "Terraform" way, however, although I have used Terraform and Azure DevOps quite a bit I realised I didn't really have a template for a pipeline.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 31 May 2020 • 5 min read
Azure DevOps Ansible Pipeline
Ansible

Azure DevOps Ansible Pipeline

I wanted to have a play with Azure DevOps and Ansible pipeline, but didn't want to use the Ansible Task as it requires a virtual machine. In this post I look at how to run Ansible like Terraform in an Azure DevOps pipeline.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 10 May 2020 • 4 min read
Ansible and the Azure Rest API
Ansible

Ansible and the Azure Rest API

Over the last few months I have been doing more and more work with Ansible to manage end to end deployments in Azure. For the most part Ansible’s core set of Azure modules work with no problems and more than do the job.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 29 Mar 2020 • 10 min read
Upgrade Python on MacOS
macOS

Upgrade Python on MacOS

The latest major version of Python 2 was originally release on 03/07/2010 and on 01/01/2020 Python 2 will be no more, so how can you upgrade?

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 29 Dec 2019 • 2 min read
Top 20 2019
Music

Top 20 2019

Here are my top 20 records of 2019.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 28 Dec 2019 • 2 min read
Packer CentOS 8
CentOS

Packer CentOS 8

Now that CentOS 8 has been out for a few weeks I decided it was time to dip my toe in the water and update the CentOS 7 Packer scripts

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 13 Oct 2019 • 3 min read
Adding a Deploy to Azure Button
Azure

Adding a Deploy to Azure Button

While working on another post, I needed to launch an Ansible VM in Azure, so I decided to look at a button!

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 14 Sep 2019 • 2 min read
Current Tools
macOS

Current Tools

With macOS Catalina coming out soon I thought I would document what I currently have installed.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 7 Sep 2019 • 1 min read
Quickly launch an Azure AKS Cluster
Azure

Quickly launch an Azure AKS Cluster

I need to be able to quickly launch and teardown an Azure AKS cluster, in this post I look at the commands needed to do that using the Azure CLI

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 1 Sep 2019 • 3 min read
Playlist, August 2019
Music

Playlist, August 2019

What has been on the record deck on August 2019?

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 30 Aug 2019 • 1 min read
Azure Bastion
Azure

Azure Bastion

Last week Microsoft announced that Azure Bastion had gone into public preview, I had been interested in this service since I first heard about it a few months ago.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 23 Jun 2019 • 5 min read
Playlist, June 2019
Music

Playlist, June 2019

What have I been listening to this month? Well let me tell you.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 22 Jun 2019 • 2 min read
Microsoft Azure Portal URLs
Azure

Microsoft Azure Portal URLs

As I am finding myself using Microsoft Azure more and more I thought I would make some notes about how to quickly access the various web portals.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 16 Jun 2019 • 3 min read
Moving to ZSH
macOS

Moving to ZSH

After the announcement a few weeks backm that Apple would be defaulting to zsh in macOS Catalina I decided to take the plunge and make the switch on my current machines.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 15 Jun 2019 • 1 min read
Terraform Quirks
Azure

Terraform Quirks

I have been using Terraform over the last few months, having not used it in anger for quite a while since the projects I have been working on have been more suitable for using Ansible.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 9 Feb 2019 • 4 min read
Top Twenty​​​​-ish 2018 edition
Music

Top Twenty​​​​-ish 2018 edition

After missing 2017, I am back with a list of some of my favourite releases of the year. As per previous years, these are all albums which I have physically purchased, some more than once, and they are listed in no particular order.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 1 Jan 2019 • 3 min read
Gaming in the Cloud with Shadow
Cloud

Gaming in the Cloud with Shadow

In a change from my normal technical posts, I thought I would write a little about Shadow, which I signed up for a few weeks ago.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 30 Dec 2018 • 4 min read
First steps with DigitalOceans Managed Kubernetes service
Kubernetes

First steps with DigitalOceans Managed Kubernetes service

A few days ago DigitalOcean released their Managed Kubernetes service, as I had a little time this afternoon I decided to give it a spin.

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 16 Dec 2018 • 5 min read
270 Days
Book

270 Days

It has been 270 days since my last post, so what I have been doing with my time?

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 25 Oct 2018 • 1 min read
Shopping for Containers
Containers

Shopping for Containers

Over the last six months the Docker Store, which was first introduced as a private beta nearly a year and a half ago in June 2016, has come on leaps

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    Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick 28 Jan 2018 • 5 min read
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