Python

Fedora now has the AWS Elastic File Store (EFS) mount helper available for Fedora 38 and newer releases! It chooses optimized NFS mount options for you and makes mounting and unmounting a breeze.

The original icanhazip.com lives on, but the other services are going offline. 😢

Provision services on Microsoft’s Azure CLI on Fedora 35. 💙

icanhazip.com lives on with the same mission, but with a new owner 🤗

Emojis brighten up any message or document. 🌻 Search, select, and use emojis quickly on Linux with rofimoji. 🤗

The latest release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) was published last week.

I opened up a noVNC console to a virtual machine today in my OpenStack cloud but found that the console wouldn’t take keyboard input.

DISA’s final release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) came out a few weeks ago and it has plenty of improvements and changes.

IBM Edge 2016 is almost over and I’ve learned a lot about Power 8 this week.

OpenStack’s compute service, nova, manages all of the virtual machines within a OpenStack cloud.

I ran into an interesting problem recently in my production OpenStack deployment that runs the Mitaka release.

The 2016 Red Hat Summit is underway in San Francisco this week and I delivered a talk with Robyn Bergeron earlier today.

When you’re ready to commit code in an OpenStack project, your patch will eventually land in a Gerrit queue for review.

Let’s Encrypt has taken the world by storm by providing free SSL certificates that can be renewed via automated methods.

I’m a big fan of the pyenv project because it makes installing multiple python versions a simple process.

Although I use GNOME 3 as my desktop environment, I prefer KDE’s kwallet service to gnome-keyring for some functions.

Working with open source software is an amazing experience.

I’ve written about systemd-networkd in the past and how easy it can be to set up new network devices and tunnels.

With Fedora 22’s release date quickly approaching, it’s time to familiarize yourself with dnf.

After upgrading my Fedora 20 Xen hypervisor to virt-manager 1.

Python’s virtual environment capability is extremely handy for situations where you don’t want the required modules for a particular python project to get mixed up with your system-wide installed modules.

It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Twitter and OpenStack.

My quest to get better at Python led me to create a new project on GitHub.

Regular users of Python’s package tools like pip or easy_install are probably familiar with the PyPi repository.

My work at Rackspace has changed a bit in the last few weeks and I’ve shifted from managing a team of engineers to a full technical focus on OpenStack Nova.

If up2date throws some horrible Python errors and rpm says “rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries”, you can restore your system to normality with the following: