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

Linux KVM Talk

After my earlier post on KVM, members of my local Linux Users Group expressed a lot of interest. In this talk I give an overview of the Linux QEMU-KVM-libvirt stack and show how to set up a home lab on a recent Debian/Ubuntu (early 2019).

KVM Virtualization, VMM, and Spice on Ubuntu

Linux Kernel Virtualization is a great and free tool for running a virtual environment for a home lab or small business. Linode and Digital Ocean, two of the most popular independent Virtual Hosting Providers, both use KVM (with a lot of custom in house tooling). While it is powerful and free it isn't always as slick and polished as VMWare Workstation on Windows.