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python

Python HTTP.server

Intro (the issue) What is required I need to get a config cloud-config.yml file onto the directory /var/lib/rancher/conf (Rancher OS) on a server which has network access but I don’t have SSH access to SCP the file across why this is how you set up a public SSH key and can do all sorts of […]

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Monitoring

Grafana Visualisation

Turns time-series databases and more into useful visualisation of that data it empowers you to graph, alert on, and explore data you have collected and supports Prometheus natively. Again with most really good open-source software, the easiest way of getting it up and running is with docker there is an official Grafana built docker image […]

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Doucmentation

CodiMD

CodiMD is the free open source version of HackMD with reduced features and I find it is perfect for creating and standardising documentation for a team as you all get the formatting the same. Installing CodiMD The easiest way of getting up and running with CodiMD is to use the docker-compose provided by CodiMD To […]

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My Lab

Lab Docker Host

Ok getting this blog back on track we will need a docker host or two for easily setting up of Lab solutions. What is Docker ? Docker is the abstraction of the application from the Operating System what this means is you can separate the OS and the app, you can run multiple application on […]

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Doucmentation

To Markdown Or Not To Markdown

Why Markdown Over the years of being technologist, I have come across many commonalities when working at companies we will call these Rules of Wisdom One such Rule is documentation comes last always last, this is usually not by design but by the pressures placed onto the few that have the knowledge be it technical ability […]