That new hard drive. Should you trust it? Maybe.
Over the last 10 years that I've been messing around with Linux servers (hence the name of the site by the way) there's been one thing above all else that's always required special care - hard drives. They are mechanical beasts just waiting to eat y...
Given the ever changing dependencies with the lsgm version of TeamSpeak and the issues surrounding updating the TeamSpeak version within the container, we have decided to, effective immediately, deprecate the image - it is now no longer maintained or supported by us.
We considered moving to usin...
Constructing a long, complex string in Ansible can be achieved quite easily utilising Python string subsitution syntax.
Suppose you have the following variables:
app_protocol: http
app_host: 12.34.56.78
app_port: 8080
app_path: api/v2/testingYou could construct a string with all the component...
It's quite easy to get tied in knots when dealing with the early stages of an Arch install because you're offline. So what do you do about this? Get online ASAP. Sometimes via ethernet, sometimes WiFi is the only option. Here's a quick set of instructions including a couple of gotchas that might hel...
When working in a dynamic environment you can use the following syntax to query an instance for information about itself.
I found this very useful when needing to discover which availability zone an instance was running in, for example.
curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identit...
Today we will cover configuring a Linux system to boot using systemd boot on a UEFI system.
Firstly you'll need to check you're booted into EFI mode. You can do this with dmesg | grep "EFI v".
Sometimes it's possible to boot your system from legacy BIOS mode instead of UEFI mode - look for the...
On a wonderful sunny Sunday morning, I spent a good few hours sweating over my server in the hopes of restoring a partially corrupted and misconfigured database. Why? Because I was pulling mysql:latest.
This should serve as a case study for those that live on the edge - it's not always wise to c...
Another Ansible top tip. Suppose you are running an installer or other process via Ansible which expects the user to be present accept a license agreement, enter some information or something. Enter expect, a handy little utility which can listen for certain strings in stdout and react accordingly...
Let's say you are in the midst of writing an Ansible playbook and you need to reference multiple values from an 'item' in different places. Here's a neat code snippet that will allow you to do just that.
hosts: all
vars:
file_path_1: /usr/bin
file_path_2: /example
file_path_3: /opt
tasks:...