Category Archives: Computers

Kubernetes 1.9.0 Installation

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Freejack

Overview After discussion between my manager and the SysEng management team, it’s been decided that I’m to take over the Kubernetes infrastructure. The one SysEng who’s still here has put in his time and the belief is that management of … Continue reading →

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DevOps Interview

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Freejack

Did my interview Friday. Interesting in general. No real OS questions but questions on Kubernetes and Docker and interest in Helm. Then an actual hands on test. Configure Jenkins to upload a file from a Github site to an Amazon … Continue reading →

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Installing Container Linux on VMware

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Freejack

I have a VMware vCenter configuration at home. Two R710 servers connected as a cluster (VMUG subscription). I was having a little trouble with installing CoreOS (aka Container Linux) and in general have issues due to most tutorials using Vagrant, … Continue reading →

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Presenting Homelabs To Potential Employers

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Freejack

A recent posting mentioned documenting your HomeLab on your Resume to show you’re going above and beyond what your job requires. Shows initiative and interest. I know when we’re looking at candidates, we want to find people who have external … Continue reading →

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If A Tree Falls In The Forest

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Freejack

I write scripts to better manage the Unix servers we’re responsible for. Shell scripts, perl scripts, whatever it takes to get the information needed to stay on top of the environment. Be proactive. Generally scripts are written when a problem … Continue reading →

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‘If You Were Smart, You’d Be In Engineering’

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Freejack

This is a comment I heard a few years back from a manager on the Engineering side of the house. Of course it’s stated in a bad way, but the words behind it is that to advance in technology, your … Continue reading →

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git Version Control for rcs Users – Setting up gitlab

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Freejack

Next up is to install Gitlab. The problem will be the inability to access to ‘net from work. So a manual install will need to be done. We’ll see how that goes. Gitlab is pretty easy to install. Just follow … Continue reading →

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git Version Control for rcs Users – Configuring gitlab and Jenkins Servers

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Freejack

This is intended to document the steps involved in moving from an RCS based environment to a git based environment. In previous posts, I showed the environment I’m currently working in and the progress to changing from using RCS to … Continue reading →

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Extending Swap in LVM

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Freejack

Sometimes I need to extend swap in an environment managed by LVM. Here are the commands you need to do so. In this case we want to increase swap to 6 gigabytes. Initially just check the status of swap. Next, … Continue reading →

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git Version Control for rcs Users – Synchronization

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Freejack

Now that I can check out files, edit, and check them back in. The last step is syncing the files with the target server or servers. I’m trying to eliminate the extra static files/put them into the repo vs having … Continue reading →

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