Gerard Braad's blog

Choosing Convenience over the "Best" Standard In infrastructure-as-code, the best technical solution does not always win.

... but not for the reasons I expected.

This is the presentation as given at the FUDCon Phnom Penh.

OpenStack can be seen as a set of projects which combined into a configuration can deliver a management solution for different use-cases.

In this presentation I will introduce Flatpak and how it changes the software distribution model for Linux.

Working on personal and work-related tasks can be overwhelming, especially when you lose sight of what actually needs to be done.

As an engineer I love to work and talk about software and software development.

Installing and configuring software on one machine, for instance your own developer's environment, is an 'easy' task.

In a previous article I have written on how easy it is to stand up a test environment of OpenShift.

It is hard to remember the time I really sat down in front of the TV, waiting for a programme to show up, and really enjoy it.

If you install Docker on a new Fedora or CentOS system, it is very likely that you use devicemapper.

In my previous article I described how I used an Ansible playbook and a few roles to stand-up a Kubernetes test environment.

Recently I did a lot of tests with Atomic, such as a creating custom images for Ceph, and ways to provide an immutable infrastructure.

One of the books I got recommended early in my career was Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Alan McKean.

As a consultant, an engineer, or just any employee, you are responsible to provide solutions to challenges and issues you face on the workfloor.

Maintaining documentation can be an involved process, especially when different versions and output formats are needed.

In this article I will describe how you can setup a webserver environment with Highly Available (HA) storage, provided by GlusterFS.

Code is read more often than it is written.

One of the things that you notice when using Docker, is that all commands you run from the Dockerfile with RUN or CMD are performed as the root user.

As part of providing a scalable infrastructure, many components in the datacenter are now moving towards software-based solutions, such as SDN (for networking) and SDS (for storage).

Setting up infrastructure should be as simple as playing with LEGO.

Today I decided to pick up blogging again and asked the question; what to use?

In this presentation I will introduce Software Distribution for a new era.

In this article we will deploy an OpenStack environment using TripleO using the tripleo-quickstart scripts.

This is a publication of an article/training class I gave related to setting up an environment using OpenStack, to host a multi-tier applicatiom.

You can remotely trigger a build by using the API First you need to get your auth token: $ curl -u me@gbraad.nl-X POST -d "" https://build.phonegap.com/token Test it and retrieve your appid using the following command: $ curl https://build.phonegap.com/a…

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