For when you're in the middle of it
Tracklist: "Getting Ready to Get Down" - honeyhoney; "In Hell I'll Be in Good Company" - The Dead South; "The Queer Gospel" - Erin McKeown; "A Better Son/Daughter" - Rilo Kiley; "This Year" - The Mountain Goats
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Unattended Upgrades and Docker Image Updates on Rasberry Pi OS
In This Blog– Some extended documentation on the what and why behind how I've setup the auto updates noted in my github repository, but if you know what you're doing and just want some known-good config for executing docker updates you can go there directly: https://github.com/crayzeigh/pihole-unifi
How to setup Pi-hole and the UniFi controller on Raspberry Pi using Docker Compose
And here, like a good DevOp, I begin to completely overengineer the solution...
The DevOpsDays Boston 2020 Production Post
Author's note: This turned out to be a bit longer than I anticipated going in. Hopefully these headings are useful for you to find the information or story relevant to you. Don't feel bad not reading it all, skip around and take what's useful,
Remapping
This is the second part of a currently ongoing searies in which I purchase a new keyboard and end up having to learn how to type all over again. If you missed it, part one can be found here. The short answer to all of this right now is, I&
Learning All Over Again
This is the start of a probably short, but likely frequently posted series where I learn how to type all over again. Don't worry, I haven't injured myself, I've just bought a new keyboard.
Tabletop DevOps #1: Werewolf
Tabletop DevOps Episode One!
Why we talk Culture with DevOps
This one's been brewing for a while and I needed to dump the ideas onto a page. I might come back and edit this, I might leave it just as stream of consciousness as it is. enjoy It's not uncommon as a DevOpsDays organizer to receive
On Borrowing From Yourself
This is a repackaging of a twitter thread I posted starting with this tweet here: So if you've already read all of that, this isn't going to say anything new, but I thought it might be easier to digest and more long lived and anyway I
On Craft
What do Open Source software and Craft Beer have in common? The characteristics of the developers. Craft Software is defined by passion, innovative tradition, openness & sharing, and community involvement.
Own worst enemy
I probably have started this blog entry about 10 times. Over about five weeks. And typed about 3-5000 words about it. And here I am, starting over. So, I (am fairly certain I) have ADHD. Why? Because I started this blog poast about 10 times over five weeks...
Skeptics in the Church of Data, Pt. 4: Reformation
This is the fourth part in a series on shifting our thoughts about Monitoring. All of this came from a talk I gave at GalaxZ'17 in Austin, TX earlier this year and was initially published on (Cage Data)[https://www.cagedata.com/2017/09/26/skeptics-in-the-church-of-data-pt-4-reformation/]. You can
Monitoring
Skeptics in the Church of Data, Pt. 3: New Partners
This is part three in a series about monitoring all coming from a talk that I gave in Austin, TX at GalaxZ'17 and originally published at CageData.com. In part one I introlduced the problem and in part two I discussed how we should start to change. Today
Monitoring
Skeptics in the Church of Data, pt.2: Empathetic Monitoring
This is part two in a series about monitoring stemming from a talk that I gave in Austin, TX at GalaxZ'17 and published on Cage Data's Blog. In part one I initially brought up the point of what I think is terrible in the current world
Monitoring
Skeptics in the Church of Data, Pt. 1: Ein Minuten Bitte
Here is where I begin as Martin Luther. Except I don't have 99 theses and nailing them to a church door seems both low tech for this conversation and like a prosecutable offense.
personal
The Journey Continues
There are always moments in our lives where there are things that happened before them, and things that happen after them.
A Home
With anything new, it only seems fitting to christen it in some way. So with a blog, a first post. I've gotten to that point where I feel the need to collect what I've done (and my thoughts) in some place relatively easy to find. It
DevOpsDays
DevOpsDays 2017 -or- Why I Love This Community
Some of the blog readers may know that I (Aaron) have been doing a bit of traveling lately. Some of the conferences I have been attending fall under the DevOpsDays heading. Recently, I was at DevOpsDays Toronto and earlier this year at DevOpsDays Seattle. I've gone to so
DevOps
Retrospective: DevOps Days Rockies 2016
Originally posted to the Cage Data Blog I've been inaugurated with my first DevOps Days. It was a fantastic, exhausting weekend where I probably gained more perspective on the DevOps community in 2 days than most of my working career. What's a DevOps Day anyway? If
DevOps
Actionable Alerts: Reducing False Positives & Making On-Call Suck Less
This was originally a guest post written for the VictorOps Blog. In the world of IT Operations, there is no escaping the Dreaded On-Call. Someone has to keep a look out at night to make sure the business continues to run and we're not all going to get
How-To
Rebuilding Quick Actions in Outlook for Mac
This was originally posted to CageData.com/blog As much as everyone loves to bag on Microsoft, I must say that I love their email client. Outlook has always been the most robust and flexible mail client and their Quick Actions only added to that. Having customizable macros that can