Linux

I’m one of the (probably) few people that still dual-boot Windows and Linux. There are plenty things that are easier for me to do on a Linux host rather than in Windows, even with WSL being quite useful these days. An example of this is virtualization related experiments (specifically with Qemu/KVM). A little while back I started writing an upcoming blog post while booted into Linux and took some screenshots that I wanted to use for it....

For the past little while, I’ve been quite involved in hardware automation. Whether it’s spinning up cloud environments (with OpenStack) or working with services on bare-metal machines outside of a cloud-like environment, the common requirement is: Power Internet (sometimes optional) Networking switches Servers (for compute, storage, or both) Cables (sometimes numerous) This blog post will focus on some of my recent experiences with Cumulus Linux, as I’ve had to deal with it as part of a deployment for an OpenStack cloud....