I may have mentioned this before, but I have two nearly identical Supermicro 2Us. One is the main server that hosts VMs under Proxmox to do various tasks – a NAS, a Docker host, jumpbox, etc. The other came about because I discovered that its motherboard hardware revision level was too old to support Xeon […]
Terraform 0.11.x –> 0.12.x
Anyone in the SRE/DevOps world is likely at least aware of Terraform, if not actively using it. While Pulumi’s ability to write IaC in Python seems lovely to me, my company uses Terraform, so HCL it is. If you aren’t familiar, I’ll give a brief overview. Terraform is an IaC (see link above) tool. You […]
Tag, but with less running
The last project I had during my time as a Distribution Engineer was to map out a nearby town’s electrical system. They had contracted us to handle their maintenance and construction, and their maps were… well, they weren’t. As an aside, here’s a brief explanation of rural electric membership cooperatives (REMCs), municipal power districts (munis), […]
Adventures With 811
For those of you unfamiliar with 811, it’s a public service that attempts to prevent people from hitting buried utilities. Some utilities, like internet (at least on the to-the-home branches) are frequently trenched minimally at best, and with little to no protection. Electrical is usually adequately buried, but a. you never know b. a big […]