When Big Sur was released 2 weeks ago, everyone talked about M1 Silicon compatibility and possible broken things on older Macbooks. macOS UpgradeIt downloaded ~13GB and installed it unattended afterwards. No problems logging in and continuing to work :) HomebrewI'm using Homebrew to install CLI tools and apps not available on…
I started marking interesting sessions on my sched.com profile, also knowing about overlaps. I recommend reserving a focus time block after KubeCon to watch parallel sessions on-demand. The keynotes are always insightful and thoughtful, and inclusive. "Diversity-powered resilience is what #CloudNative is all about... resilience is built, not…
You may run into the case of purging a system and removing sensitive data, e.g. when transferring VM ownership. There are multiple steps with shell history, configuration, home directories and stateful/log data. Delete shell historyrm $HOME/.bash_history history -cw Configuration and Home DirectoriesIn the best base, the…
Since there is no package available for docker-compose, one always needs to check the latest release version and then adjust the cURL download command. This step can be automated with fetching the latest release from the GitHub API first, and then using this detail in the cURL command. jq is…
A Discourse instance can be set in read-only mode for backups. I had used this for a global read-only maintenance. The admin session was on one of my computers which timed out after a while. In order to regain access to the Discourse instance, and being able to login as…
Jeffrey asked me to create a short intro video for the first German Virtual Connect Day at GitLab. I'm lazy, started Zoom and recorded it. Then I uploaded the video to LinkedIn, and this worked like a breeze. Twitter did not like it, unsupported format (and likely codec). A guide…
Some years ago, my brother asked me for building a website for their parkour and freerunning group. I was like - sure, but I need to ensure that site updates are reliable. Back in 2012, I was a heavy WordPress user, with an Elegant Themes theme included for building blocks.…
How to start a good story? Uh oh. I used to actively maintain DNS infrastructures from 2009-2012 at the University of Vienna, only ops troubleshooting since then. Ok ... let's see. I am located near Nuremberg, Brendan joins from Maryland. Dummy check in the browser - works for me. Probably not…