Things I’ve learned about Linux system administration, software engineering, and DevOps.
I had planned to start the cohort-based course “Basic Linux System Administration” later this week. When this cohort unfortunately didn’t fill up, I realized this was the perfect opportunity to do something I’ve wanted to try for a while: offer my Linux System Administration course completely free as a livestreaming experience. Starting this month, I’ll…
In her article “What’s the biggest unsolved problem within Site Reliability Engineering?”, Paige Cruz identifies a critical challenge facing our industry: how do we pass the hard-won knowledge of veteran system administrators down to a new generation that has never worked outside cloud infrastructure?
Hello DevOps friends! In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at the ls command. There is no Unix or Linux user who doesn’t use it on a daily basis, so I’ll teach you what you need to know. The ls command is how you see what’s on your Linux disks. Type ls in…
While traditional mentorship has its value, sometimes a group of helpful peers can be a great way to grow. The Server Room is such a community.
Container-based deployment is a neat way to self-host an application. However, I always try not to go overboard with complexity. That’s why I won’t immediately join the chorus of Kubernetes disciples when members of my DevOps community ask me how to deploy container workloads. Searching for viable alternatives, I recently explored the much simpler alternative…
This article is a rant triggered by an inane argument made by Eric Schmidt, who blamed remote work for what’s clearly management failure.
In this article, I discuss the pros and cons of checking out and maybe adopting new DevOps tools, even though the ones we have are still doing their job.
Today, I spent hours trying to install Bluefin on an older laptop. The process always failed with Failed to write boot loader configuration. I tried vanilla Fedora Silverblue and ended up with the same disappointing result. Following a tip I found on the Bluefin Discord, I finally tried installing Fedora Workstation, and was able to…
For the biggest part of this week, I’ve been working on upgrading the Rails versions of our managed hosting dashboard application. I started with Rails 6.0, and now I’m at Rails 7.1. Today, I struggled for a long time with deploying to the staging instance on Heroku. At the centre of my issues was that…