vrrp and keepalived
I've found keepalived to be lacking in the area of supporting tools. This post is about the scripts I wrote to get important data.
How to Use an Ubuntu or Debian Cloud Image
Canonical and Debian provide images for cloud deployments, but you can use them instead of ISOs to speed up new VM creation in smaller environments without having to create the preseed ISOs or an OpenStack environment.
A Simple Script for Listing Every Cron
Remarkably there is no well known Linux utility for listing out every cron job on a system, a task which Systems Administrators frequently need to do.
A Working Serial Console in KVM Guests
You can't login to your kvm guest via ssh, and you want to connect with virsh console. Then nothing happens.
Splunk and Fluentd
[Splunk](https://www.splunk.com/) is currently the ruling solution for log aggregation and analysis. Last Year I took time to look at it and FluentD an Open Source Alternative.
Working with Splunk
This is the second of three posts about Splunk and Fluentd. This one is about some of the things I do to set up Splunk.
Rejecting Fluentd
Fluentd was a disappointment, the savings won’t offset the extra effort it would take.
PulseCast Update, Ansible Role Published to Galaxy
While repairing my audio setup after updates broke it, I created an ansible role.
Resolving Preferential Ballots with Vote::Count
VoteCount and Preferential Ballots Philadelphia Linux Users Group 2019