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Student v2.0
Welcome Week @ UoR started on Monday (20/09/2021) and I’m excited to say that I already like the campus and the people behind the various activities that are happening there atm. On Monday I managed to sort my student card and got to visit a few of the campus buildings not to mention attended a…
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End of a journey, beginning of a new one
In 2017 my life changed with me moving to the UK and joining the team at Paragon Internet Group Ltd (tsoHost brand owned by GoDaddy), now, in 2021, it’s time for another major change in my life … this time career wise … with me leaving the infra team at TSO (ops) and joining the…
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Holiday session – August 2021
Nottingham(castle), Kendal (Lake District), Manchester (stadium), Leeds (Luke), Oxford (Blenheim Palace)
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Anniversary – 2021
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Project: Experimental Host
These past few days I felt an itch … one I can’t quite put in words … it’s that feeling you get when you have an idea you’re excited about ( it might be gold, it might be shit … only one way to find out … do it! 🙂 ). Working for a big…
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Home lab – Cobbler – OS provisioning on Bare metal and VMs
If not familiar with what Cobbler is and/or does then go here: https://cobbler.github.io/ As a sysadmin I always enjoyed setting up complex infrastructures or testing various cool features that some new piece of software has or simply test if my stuff would work on a newer version of Linux (whatever flavor of Linux that may…
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Camping session – June 2021
As we all know 2020 and first part of 2021 sucked thanks to COVID-19 however with the easing of the restrictions me and the boss (wife) figured we should be okay to go camping for a few days. I’ll mention Badgells Camping https://badgellswoodcamping.co.uk, Ightham Mote and Diggerland and let the pictures do the talking 🙂
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CentOS8 on ZFS
CentOS8 on ZFS is not an easy one also not a pretty one as there is no simple direct route for it. You’ll need to have a CentOS8 default install + the zfs bits on a disk which we will later on copy the files from to our zfs filesystems. You can now attach a…
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CentOS8 on BTRFS
Officially CentOS8 does not support BTRFS (the RedHat ppl had it as a demo feature on CentOS7 which allowed one to install the os on a root partition with btrfs as the filesystem) so do this at your own peril. install CentOS8 dnf upgrade -y get the remi repos for el8 installed dnf install kernel-ml…
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Haproxy maps
Haproxy is one of the best reverse proxy servers out there (saying that after year of using it for various personal and work related projects … some quite creative I’d say … ) and when I heard about its “maps” functionality (combined with the admin socket and the hitless reload functionality) I immediately realised that…