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There’s a lot of talk about “AI” and “LLMs” recently.

In 2014 I wrote an article about the switch as an ordinary GNU/Linux server.

I publicly released mgmt to the internet 10 years ago.

I’ve been using git status for quite a long time now.

Want to tunnel etcd traffic over SSH?

iPXE is a terrific tool, but despite their very respectable documentation, it has some rough edges, and it still feels like an “in crowd” kind of thing, where you have to learn the common tricks by knowing someone.

Mgmt modules are used for structuring your code across multiple files.

It’s been a little while since I introduced the Mgmt Configuration Language.

I last wrote about dmesg in 2016.

Today I’m announcing a new type of provisioning tool.

As most modern GNU+Linux distro users already know, you get a lot of tools included for free!

There are three upcoming mgmtconfig events happening within the next seven days!

If you have more than one git branch up in the air at the same time, having a system to track them and filter them is essential.

I’m on Fedora 37 at the moment.

You’ve probably used libreoffice.

Picture this.

Everyone uses git diff.

I’ve been writing some massively concurrent code for mgmt lately.

I decided to write a fancy test harness in golang today.

Ever find yourself typing more characters than is necessary when using some annoying application or website?

In an earlier post, I got USB audio working on my used, manual, 2013 Honda Civic EX.

TL;DR: I’ve got a new job working for Amazon, in the “Open Source Program Office”.

TL;DR: I’m available for hire.

The one thing that I’ve been using for longer than ssh is dynamic dns.

Transportation is very important to me.

It’s been a little over a year since I introduced the Mgmt Configuration Language.

mgmt @ FOSDEM: Later today I’m giving four talks about mgmt at FOSDEM.

In my hands is a Cisco AIR-CAP-3502-E-A-K9 that I saved from the landfill.

As I’m sure you’ve now heard, Red Hat is being acquired by IBM.

Over the years I’ve learned about many of the advantages of using a modern terminal and shell.

I’m old school cool.

I’ve been working on lots of new stuff in mgmt and I had a synchronization problem that needed solving… Long story short, I built it into a piece of re-usable functionality, exactly like you might find in the sync package.

I’ve spent about four years at Red Hat, and now it’s time to move on… TL;DR: had to leave Red Hat and start Patreon to fund mgmt.

Sometimes while I’m deep inside mgmt’s project directory, I want to run an operation from the Makefile which lives in the root!

Mgmt has given us a lot of great features, demos, and insight into how infrastructure automation should be managed.

Hello!

As you may have noticed, we recently re-licensed mgmt from the AGPL (Affero General Public License) to the regular GPL.

I have a short movie that I imported into a libreoffice presentation.

Recently, while operating two different remote-controlled appliances, I realized that it was high time for a discussion about declarative and imperative paradigms.

LaForge and the fine folks at Osmocom (Sysmocom) recently had a femtocell giveaway.

In mgmt we have meta parameters.

I’ve been hacking in golang since before version 1.4, and the speed at which my builds finished has been mostly trending downwards.

I’m old school and still rocking an old X220 laptop because I didn’t like the new ones.

I previously published “A revisionist history of configuration management”.

I’ve got a brand new core feature in mgmt called send/recv which I plan to show you shortly, but first I’d like to start with some background.

Bootstrapping a cluster from your laptop, or managing machines without needing to first setup a separate config management infrastructure are both very reasonable and fundamental asks.

The mgmt config project got a logo!

All good sysadmins eventually learn about using tail -F to tail files.

The Technical Blog of James was seen on an outdoor electronic display in downtown Montreal!

I was stuck on a 14 hour flight last week, and to my disappointment, only one of the two headphone speakers were working.