Hanging up my red fedora
Feb 12th was my last day at Red Hat. I sent a very similar version of this blog post as a note to my colleagues as well. It’s been a fun nearly 3 years working at Red Hat and wearing the Red Hat fedora[1]. I’ve had a wonderful time working for Red Hat both from…
The Funniest Incident Postmortem
Recently, I had a chance to think about an outage that I debugged and fixed a few years ago that involves Jenkins and systemd (or in this case lack thereof!). Generally, if you want to run a task at the end of every Jenkins job whether the job has passed or failed, you have two…
Getting rpcbind to work without IPv6
This advice is going to be useful to a small subset of folks. But it’s useful nonetheless. With us being nearly exhausted of IPv4 addresses, we should probably not be disabling IPv6, but there are some rare situations where some tests depend on IPV4 only. The Glusterfs regression test framework makes a lot of assumptions.…
My Personal Productivity System
With everyone having a phone, there’s a whole bunch of online todo lists and tools that help you keep track of your life and improve your productivity. I’ve tried a whole bunch of them. I’ve actually cycled through the entire lot. I’ve used almost all the tools, I’ve done a bunch of paper methods and…
Filling the Gaps in My Knowledge
I started working as a sysadmin just as cloud really took off. I wasn’t really exposed to a lot of the networking minutiae. That was over 9 years ago. I never had to deal with something complicated in the world of networking. I stuck in my Linux lane and never wandered over to the networking…
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