Storing Secrets for Teams
tl;dr: Use Hashicorp Vault Storing secrets among teams is important. There is a great blog on managing secrets and the […]
DevOps, secrets
2019
IaaS, Terraform
Managing LXC/LXD Linux Containers with Terraform
Disclaimer: This post will not speak about creating and maintaining LXC clusters and networking. This post will introduce LXC/LXD and […]
Computer Networks South Africa
The Biggest Internet Players in South Africa – Internet Exchange Resources
NAP Africa – Non-Profit Internet Exchange view who is peering PeeringDB search for Teraco data centres – You can view […]
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 […]
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 […]
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/
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 […]
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 […]
auto-remediation, DevOps
Introduction to Alerta: Open Source Aggregated Alerts
There are a number of platforms available these days to assist operations in terms of dealing with alerts. Namely Pagerduty, […]