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.
Cloud Day to Day Tools Its been quite a while since I wrote up what I am using on day to day, in fact, I seem to have skipped all of 2016. Desktop Apps Not
Ansible First Steps with Ansible All of the posts on orchestration on here have been about Puppet on CentOS however last week I had need to script an AWS architecture and then launch instances built
Mac What’s in the toolbox? It’s been a while since I listed what I am using day-to-day so I thought I would do a quick update; Desktop Apps SublimeText — Text Editor GitHub Mac Client
CentOS Sysdig Sysdig looks like it could be a useful addition to a sysadmins list of tools, it is described as; Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity
Magento Quick Magento Installation As part of work I have to install Magento with its sample data a lot for proof of concepts, while the installation is simple it can quickly become a chore.
CentOS Installing Cobbler on CentOS 6.x I needed a simple way to mirror some repos, and potentially kickstart some servers at a future date. While something like The Foreman would do the build side of things
CentOS SaltStack on CentOS 6.x Had a play with SaltStack today, it’s a good way to manage multiple machines from a central location. It runs as a Server (master) and client (minion). First we
CentOS Puppet Server & Client Installation CentOS 6.x This post assumes that you are starting with a clean minimal CentOS 6.4 64bit server and you have a full hostname set. Puppet Server Installation …… # Hostname — Make sure the
