by Mattias Giese | Sep 2, 2020 | howto
Salt [1] is not only useful for configuration management or infrastructure automation in general but also a flexible platform to build your own specialized solutions on top. This blog post shows how easy it is to leverage Salt from within your own Python code and how...
by Mattias Giese | Aug 19, 2020 | howto
When Docker was released it felt like a revelation to developers and admins. For the first time a user space utility combined some old but very nifty kernel features in an easy-to-use package. But after some time, weaknesses of the Docker architecture were observed...
by Tim Schmeling | Aug 5, 2020 | howto
Larger companies have a big network with different network segments. Often they have active components like routers and firewalls inside the network to avoid bad traffic and unauthorized connections. If you now like to implement a new (open source) software, which...
by Johannes Kastl | Jul 29, 2020 | howto
In a previous blogpost we learned how to use git and bash aliases and also use bash completion. Another nifty feature is showing some git information in your bash prompt. This blogpost will show you how. What the prompt? Usually, you won’t even notice your prompt, as...
by Johannes Kastl | Jul 22, 2020 | howto
If you are like me, you will likely work on several different projects on a daily basis – and all of them will be stored in git. Sure, git is easy to use. But typing the same set of commands multiple times, every day, can be quite annoying. Fortunately, using...
by Thilo Mull | Jun 17, 2020 | howto
Videokonferenzen erfreuen sich gerade in Coronazeiten großer Beliebtheit, passen aber auch so ins 21. Jahrhundert, in dem Meetings auch online abgehalten werden können. Die Open Source Videokonferenzplattform BigBlueButton zeigt, wie dies auch mit eigenem Hosting...
