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tomoconnor.eu

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I decided after a fair bit of to-ing and fro-ing that Wordpress was not really meeting my demands for a website any more. Most of the stuff I write these days is closer to articles than blog posts. Wordpress pages still run everything through stripslashes and addquotes and all the rest of that PHP nonsense, because nobody seems to be able to write a blogging engine that doesn't expose the host server to a metric pantload of bugs and vulnerabilities. Tom can slam a revolving door. The Change One Thing Rule.

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Part 5: Ansible Galaxy

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Part 5: Ansible Galaxy. Thursday, October 30th 2014. It's been a while since I wrote Parts 1. On my Ansible Tutorial series, but I've recently changed my approach somewhat when using Ansible, and certainly when I build on Parallax. I've started using more and more from Ansible Galaxy. For those of you who don't know, Galaxy is a community "app store"-like thing for sharing reusable Ansible Roles. Https:/ galaxy.ansible.com/. Https:/ galaxy.ansible.com/explore#/. Click the "database" category. Starting wi...

twinhost.co.uk

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I decided after a fair bit of to-ing and fro-ing that Wordpress was not really meeting my demands for a website any more. Most of the stuff I write these days is closer to articles than blog posts. Wordpress pages still run everything through stripslashes and addquotes and all the rest of that PHP nonsense, because nobody seems to be able to write a blogging engine that doesn't expose the host server to a metric pantload of bugs and vulnerabilities. Tom can light a fire by rubbing two ice-cubes together.

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Lightning Post: Dumping MS DNS to Bind

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Lightning Post: Dumping MS DNS to Bind. This is the first in a series of Lightning Posts, short snippets that I don't really have the time to write up into a full post, but they're interesting nonetheless. Lightning Post 1: How to export DNS data from Microsoft DNS to a zone file. Why'd you wanna do that? I hear you cry. Well, It's entirely possible to use BIND (or PowerDNS, for that matter) as a DNS server instead of the integrated MS DNS service that's bundled with Windows Server. Part 4: Ansible Tower.

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Part 1: Getting Started with Ansible

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Part 1: Getting Started with Ansible. Sunday, January 26th 2014. An introduction to Ansible Configuration Management. A brief history of Configuration Management. CFEngine - Released 1993. Written in C. Puppet - Released 2005 - Written in Ruby. Domain Specific Language (DSL. SSL Nightmare. Chef - Released 2009 - Written in Ruby, also a DSL, more like pure Ruby. Juju - Released 2010, Python, Very ubuntu. Salt - Released 2011, Python, Never got it working right. Ansible - Released 2012, Python. Awesome.

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FakeRAID and Virtualisation

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Thursday, 14th November 2013. I've been tinkering with Virtualisation quite a bit recently. For a new project, without an allocated budget, I was asked to provide some simple Virt. capability, to hold them over until they get budget approval, and can buy their own hardware. So from spending a few weeks digging into VMWare vCenter and so on, to now having one host running Hyper-V, it's been quite an interesting journey. Not only do I now have a working server (utilising a FakeRAID card - Something I'm...

twinhelix.org

FreeSWITCH on a Raspberry Pi.

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FreeSWITCH on a Raspberry Pi. Thursday, 13th June 2013. I've had a Raspberry Pi. For ages now. I got one free courtesy of Paypal at their Charity Hack in late 2012. And our team (see photo, I'm there! Went on to use it to create the (World's First? Raspberry Pi based Wifi Hotspot. I've wanted to do something potentially useful, definitely interesting, and probably rewarding with it for a while. That aside for now, I've recently moved back from London, and into the basement flat at my parents' place.

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Part 4: Ansible Tower

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Part 4: Ansible Tower. Monday, 21st July 2014. You may remember that in January, I wrote a trilogy of blogposts surrounding the use of Ansible, as a handy guide to help y’all get started. I’ve decided to revisit this now, and write another part, about Ansible Tower. In the 6-odd months since I wrote Parts 1. And so, to part four: Ansible Tower. Is the Web-based User Interface for Ansible. Developed by the company behind the Ansible project. Ansible Tower server (I’m using a VMware environment, so b...

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Part 3: Ansible and Amazon Web Services

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Part 3: Ansible and Amazon Web Services. Wednesday, January 29th 2014. By this point, you should have read Part 1: Getting Started with Ansible. And P art 2: Deploying Applications with Ansible. If you haven't, go and do it now. You should also be familar with some of the basic concept surrounding AWS deployment, how AWS works, and so on. In this section, we'll be looking at how you can put it all together, using Ansible to provision an EC2 instance, do the basic OS config, and deploy an application.