Author Archives: Freejack

Jinja2: Encountered Unknown Tag

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Freejack

Overview I was running an Ansible playbook and one of the templates failed with the following error: Jinja2 uses a brace + percent and a percent + brace to identify Jinja2 commands that are used when preprocessing a template. This … Continue reading →

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Development and Branches

Posted on April 16, 2022 by Freejack

Many many many years ago, I learned to program. It was on a Radio Shack Color Computer. It had a BASIC plug in pack and I think I could save to a cassette tape. I followed the BASIC programming book … Continue reading →

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Pork Tacos

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Freejack

This one is an easy and tasty meal and is awesome to the last taco. This is a crock pot recipe. You’ll assemble the ingredients and put a 3 lb pork shoulder into the crock pot, adjust for the size … Continue reading →

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Carl and The Llamas

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Freejack

In Concert Practice For the past 5 years, the group has played together. We’ve had almost weekly practice sessions and have added songs as we got better. We’re up to about 16 songs and still adding more. We even played … Continue reading →

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Convert From CentOS 8 to CentOS Streams

Posted on April 1, 2022 by Freejack

Overview This article provides brief instructions on how to convert and upgrade a CentOS 8 system. Background In December 2021, Red Hat retired the CentOS 8 AppSteam BaseOS, Extras, and the other CentOS mirrors in favor of going to a … Continue reading →

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Increase Ingress Routers

Posted on February 15, 2022 by Freejack

A problem I found with my OKD4 cluster is the HAProxy statistics were claiming 5 of my 7 worker nodes were red, aka down. After some searching, I found HAProxy is reporting via the ingress router pods. Further checking of … Continue reading →

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Migrating KVM Guests

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Freejack

Overview This article describes the process in migrating a Virtual Machine from one physical host to another. Background There are two methods of how the virtual machines were built on the current hosts. The old way is to create a … Continue reading →

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Computers And Me

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Freejack

Over the past 12 months, I’ve deep dived into automation. I’d been investigating this for some time prior to that but this was work related. This involved research into using Terraform to automatically build virtual machines and Ansible to configure … Continue reading →

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Recognition

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Freejack

I’m a computer geek. I’ve worked as a programmer, local area network installer, Unix Admin, and now a DevOps Engineer. Over the past 40 years, it’s understood that folks that work in the computer industry don’t get a lot of … Continue reading →

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Gitlab Runners

Posted on January 21, 2022 by Freejack

Overview This article provides local configuration details specific to the site. Links to the relevant documentation will also be provided. Description The gitlab-runner is a tool that uses the .gitlab-ci.yml file to build, test, and deploy to the target host. … Continue reading →

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