PuppetConf 2016 - San Diego
Posted: Oct 27, 2016
Two years after I last attended PuppetConf in San Francisco, I was given the opportunity to attend again, this time five hundred miles south in San Diego, and what a conference it has been.
Newest Posts
Migrating WordPress to Jekyll
Posted: Aug 16, 2016
Static site generators such as Jekyll and Hugo have recently been gaining a lot of popularity among the tech community, so I thought I'd give it a go ...
Agile Systems Management Part 1 – Stand-Ups
Posted: Jul 16, 2016
Systems management is often overlooked when it comes to implementing Agile. Here are some practices which you can implement today to supercharge your teams.
Why I signed the "Second EU Referendum" Petition
Posted: Jun 25, 2016
Yesterday, I put my name to a petition that called for a second referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union - here's why.
DevOps at SIS and PuppetCamp, Stockholm
Posted: Nov 21, 2015
In November 2015 I was lucky enough to talk DevOps, Agile & Puppet at both Puppet Labs' PuppetCamp Stockholm event and also Stockholm International School.
Running a Bitcoin Node with Puppet
Posted: Dec 30, 2014
In my previous blog, I gave my views on Bitcoin as a concept and also my take on Bitcoin’s future. Since writing that post, I’ve been researching into the technical background of Bitcoin, and have decided to set up my own Bitcoin node to help further the cause.
Bitcoin – Hype or Saviour?
Posted: Dec 22, 2014
I have been following the story of Bitcoin – the world’s most famous cryptocurrency – with a lot of interest since it became global news in late 2013. I am by no means a expert, nor am I an economist, but I am however a technologist at heart, and take a keen interest in most things that are new in the world of technology.
Shellshock - Easy Mitigation Using Puppet
Posted: Sep 25, 2014
So … CVE-2014-6271, known as Shellshock, is widely being reported as the “next Heartbleed” – the high-profile bug in the open source OpenSSL framework that threatened to cripple the Internet’s security in April 2014. Here I will go into some loose detail about what Shellshock actually is, then offer an extremely simple way for systems administrators to mitigate the issue and a one-line test to check if your system is vulnerable.
What is the Cloud?
Posted: May 8, 2014
Loved by management for its ability to save cash, lauded by developers for its ease of use and programmability, and greeted by sysadmins with a mixture of contempt, caution and celebration, the revolution surrounding cloud services has turned corporate IT on its head. Yet, for such a game-changing technology, the cloud is still widely misunderstood.