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virtualisation

Virtual Environment Utilities and Resources

I’ve been looking at what is available to help manage a virtual environment, that favours open source. It is important to know the difference between a VM, VPS and Container. VM – Full VIrtual Machine, has it’s own kernel. VPS – VPSs always run on the same OS kernel as the host system Container – […]

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Network Automation

Network Automation with Juniper

I know a bit about networking – IP addresses, different layers, HTTP, DNS, ethernet cables, default gateway, routers, switches, TCP/UDP and DHCP. However, this is mainly from a home network perspective. Getting into bigger and more advanced networking – I don’t know my arse from my elbow. I do know quite a bit of stuff […]

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API

Service for catching your HTTP requests to test a webhook

Here is a great services for testing and capturing your webhook, to see the headers and body variables. https://requestcatcher.com/ http://requestbin.fullcontact.com/

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API python

Building a rest API client or SDK as a python package

The best way to learn ways of building your API wrapper / SDK is to build it yourself from scratch is to look at ones that already exist. Here is a list of python api wrappers you can checkout and view. Most if not all of them are already python packages. Here is a good […]

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django GNU/Linux

Upgrading SQLite on CentOS to 3.8.3 or Later

Let me guess you are using django and may have just done an upgrade to django 2.2.x or 3.x in order to stay up to date and have the latest security updates. However you now have this exception to deal with… ImproperlyConfigured: SQLite 3.8.3 or later is required (found 3.7.17) This means you will need […]