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2017
OpenStack Summit Boston 2017 Recap
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The OpenStack Summit wrapped up today in Boston and it was a great week!
Five reasons why I’m excited about POWER9
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There’s plenty to like about the POWER8 architecture: high speed interconnections, large (and flexible) core counts, and support for lots of memory.
Reflecting on 10 years of (mostly) technical blogging
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It all started shortly after I joined Rackspace in December of 2006.
2016
Join me on Thursday to talk about OpenStack LBaaS and security hardening
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If you want to learn more about load balancers and security hardening in OpenStack clouds, join me on Thursday for the Rackspace Office Hours podcast1!
Talk recap: The friendship of OpenStack and Ansible
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The 2016 Red Hat Summit is underway in San Francisco this week and I delivered a talk with Robyn Bergeron earlier today.
My list of must-see sessions at Red Hat Summit 2016
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The Red Hat Summit starts this week in San Francisco, and a few folks asked me about the sessions that they shouldn’t miss.
OpenStack Summit in Austin is almost here!
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OpenStack comes home to Austin on Monday for the OpenStack Summit!
2015
Build a high performance KVM hypervisor on Rackspace’s OnMetal servers
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I received some good feedback about my post on systemd-networkd and bonded interfaces on Rackspace’s OnMetal servers, and I decided to write about another use case.
Using systemd-networkd with bonding on Rackspace’s OnMetal servers
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I’ve written about systemd-networkd in the past and how easy it can be to set up new network devices and tunnels.
Woot! Eight years of my blog
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The spring of 2015 marks eight years of this blog! I’ve learned plenty of tough lessons along the way and I’ve made some changes recently that might be handy for other people. After watching Sasha Laundy’s video from her awesome talk at Pycon 20151, I’m even more energized to share what I’ve learned with other people. (Seriously: Go watch that video or review the slides whether you work in IT or not. It’s worth your time.)
Let’s start from the beginning.
Test Fedora 22 at Rackspace with Ansible
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Fedora 22 will be arriving soon and it’s easy to test on Rackspace’s cloud with my Ansible playbook:
2014
Test Fedora 21 at Rackspace with Ansible
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Fedora 21 reached Alpha status last month and will reach beta status at the end of October.
Xen hackathon coming up in London
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2013
A humble farewell to Seth Vidal
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I was shocked to see Robyn Bergeron’s email today about Seth Vidal’s passing.
2012
Reaching a new milestone and making some big changes
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This is my 500th post on this blog!
Proud to be a part of OpenStack at Rackspace
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Troy Toman delivered a great keynote this morning about OpenStack and how Rackspace uses it:
Red Hat Summit 2012: Thursday
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Thursday has felt like the busiest, most jam-packed day of the week.
supernova: Manage multiple OpenStack nova environments with ease
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While working on multiple nova (OpenStack Compute) environments at Rackspace, I found myself thrashing between multiple terminal windows where I had exported environment variables for python-novaclient to use.
Getting a Technical Job at Rackspace
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You’ve probably noticed that the blog has slowed down a bit recently.
mysql-json-bridge: a simple JSON API for MySQL
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My quest to get better at Python led me to create a new project on GitHub.
Five years of rackerhacker.com
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Today marks the fifth year that this blog has existed on the internet.
Looking back at the long road to becoming a Red Hat Certified Architect
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The grades came back last Friday and I’ve passed the last exam in the requirements to become a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).
The Kerberos-hater’s guide to installing Kerberos
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As promised in my earlier post entitled Kerberos for haters, I’ve assembled the simplest possible guide to get Kerberos up an running on two CentOS 5 servers.
2011
You might see me on CNN Money soon
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A videographer from CNN Money stopped by the office today to ask about what makes Rackspace a unique place to work.
Xen Summit 2011: My Takeways
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Quite a few people who couldn’t make it to Xen Summit 2011 this year asked me to write a post summarizing my takeaways from the event.
Do your homework before a technical interview
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If you work for a growing company like I do, it’s inevitable that you’ll have to do your fair share of interviewing.
How to survive as a technical manager
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Anyone who says management is easy obviously hasn’t done it for very long or they’re not doing their job very well.
FUDCon 2011: Day One
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The first day of FUDCon 2011 in Tempe is coming to a close tonight and I’m completely exhausted.
2010
Accessing Rackspace Cloud Servers and Slicehost slices privately via OpenVPN
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Diagram: OpenVPN to Rackspace Cloud Servers and Slicehost
400th post: Looking back at where this blog started
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Last night’s post about my charity drive for the Movember Foundation was the 400th post on my blog!
Upgrading Fedora 13 to Fedora 14 on Slicehost and Rackspace Cloud Servers
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On most systems, using Fedora’s preupgrade package is the most reliable way to update to the next Fedora release.
GlusterFS on the cheap with Rackspace’s Cloud Servers or Slicehost
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NOTE: This post is out of date and is relevant only for GlusterFS 2.
How to sell: a guide for technical people
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I’ll admit it right now: I love engaging customers and learning more about how what we do at Rackspace can help their business or ideas take flight.
Why I’m a Racker
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I normally try to keep my work-related items separate from this blog, but I felt that I needed to break tradition for a moment.
2008
Why I interviewed at Google and stayed at Rackspace
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As some of you might know, I interviewed for a position at Google in April of this year.