Is there an open source thing out there I could use?? So if I only want to use mostly free and open source it there's a bunch of tools one need to glue together: These days I'd like to for primary ingestion have a BGP ECMP/anycast for rsyslog receivers …

Recently I had the pleasure of contributing upstream to the OpenStack project! A link to my merged patches: https://review.opendev.org/#/q/owner:+guldmyr+status:merged In a previous OpenStack summit (these days called OpenInfra Summits), (Vancouver 2018) I went there a few days early and attended the Upstream …

We use puppet at $dayjob to configure OpenStack. I wanted to know if there's a lot of unused code in our manifests! From left of stage enters: https://github.com/camptocamp/puppet-ghostbuster Step one is to install the puppet modules and gems and whatnot, this blog post was good about …

Finally got around to sorting out an issue which basically was that the TV+Chromecast near the TV was on another network than the media server and thus I couldn't stream videos by using my phone. I've been thinking lately and in previous posts that maybe I should just get …

https://www.guldmyr.com/some-updates-to-the-home-network/ Above is a previous post in this series about some improvements to my home network. With two modems from two ISPs. So! On Alibaba I found two Hasivo 8x1GbE managed fanless switches with VLAN support. Delivery time to Finland was really quick. It didn't say …

Current layout: The corner: Cable MODEM NAT&WiFi ISP A One server One desktop who should be on both networks, default gw on one Phones and tablets wifi TV Area: DSL Modem NAT&WiFi ISP B One raspberry pi connected to the server Phones and tablets wifi One chromecast, would …

Time to try out another programming language! Golang I see quite frequently in my twitters so have been thinking for a while - why not give it a shot for the next project! TLDR; https://github.com/martbhell/mailman-summarizer Why Would Anyone Ever Took a while to figure out what would …

Yay! Took the exam last week after having studied a few days. Nothing seemed to be impossible from the list of requirements at least :) Thought because it's done online it can be scheduled almost on demand, but one had to wait at least 24h for the exam environment to get …

Below I'll go through some topics I thought about while reading through the requirements for COA: Users and passwords because we use a LDAP at $dayjob. How to set passwords and stuff? openstack user password set openstack role add --user foo member --project demo Users and quota. Can one set …

The plan : study a bit and then attempt the coa exam. If I don't pass then attend the course during openstack summit: SUSE And what to study? I've been doing openstack admin work for the last year or two. So I have already done and used most services, except Swift …