Long Running Packer Builds Failing
A few months back I wrote about how I built Packer images with Terraform. This week I had to make some changes to one of the projects that use this, and I started receiving a weird error.
Automating MacOS Configuration with Ansible
From my early days with Solaris Jumpstart to more modern tools like Ansible, I’ve always been big on configuration management. For a long time I only thought about CM in terms of server configuration. Even when I was running Linux...
Dotfiles Repo
Like a lot of people, I manage all of my dotfiles in a GitHub Repo. The main reason that I do this is so that I can have a consistent environment, no matter where I log in. Over the years,...
Cleaning up EBS volumes
I’ve been cleaning up a lot of AWS resources lately and thought I would share a couple of commands that I use for cleaning up EBS volumes.
ZSH Command Prompt
With the upgrade to MacOS Catalina came a change to the default shell from bash to zsh. Since I spend a lot of time on the command line, I am pretty particular about what my command line looks like. While...