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by willthames 2y ago
RDS is an example of something that is more expensive but can be better value - because a lot of the managed service stuff saves the time of those looking after it. 15 years ago I worked an infrastructure department with 50+ employees - the
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by willthames 2y ago
Perhaps more accurate is that there is no one root cause, but a bunch of contributing factors. I had a quick search to find my favourite article on this one, it might be https://willgallego.com/2018/04/02/no
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by willthames 3y ago
Does ECS support mounting configuration files (without needing the configuration file to be on the host)? Being able to mount secrets and configmaps into the container file system (without having to modify the container image to provide an
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by willthames 3y ago
Haha, I meant to add one to my comment but struggled to do so on mobile https://github.com/openshift/openshift-restclient-python
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by willthames 3y ago
The comparison doesn’t include the (perhaps confusingly named) openshift library. All the ansible kubernetes modules rely heavily on it because its support for dynamic client (where you just want to apply a manifest and don’t know in advanc
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by willthames 3y ago
Same, where do I sign up for these kickbacks? The difference between datadog and doing it yourself is that datadog is a well thought through product rather than a cobbled together set of various tools Having a single interface for everythin
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by willthames 4y ago
Cross AZ traffic became free in April last year https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/aws-data-...
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by willthames 10y ago
Sent to Coventry appears to be Constructive Dismissal under UK law https://www.gov.uk/dismissal/unfair-and-constructive-dismiss... Of course it might not be worth the lawsuit.
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by willthames 10y ago
Ansible - I first discovered it from a comment here, thought 'who needs a new config management tool' then realised Michael Dehaan had also written cobbler so thought it was worth a crack. Since then my python skills have improved
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by willthames 10y ago
128 bits isn't twice as strong as 64 bits. 65 bits is twice as strong as 64 bits. 2^64 ~= 10^19 - or 10 million million million times stronger.
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by willthames 10y ago
Revert your playbooks and roles to the version of your last good deployment, and redeploy. With good version control, role version management and idempotent library modules, this should be functionally equivalent to a rollback. There are pl
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by willthames 11y ago
I don't think you're using it wrong, but the default for the trackpad is a hard click, as you say. But you can set the trackpad (Preferences > Trackpad > Point & Click > Tap to click) to accept a soft finger tap. And
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by willthames 11y ago
I'm not sure why Atlassian would acquire Gitlab when they already have Stash (which might be called Bitbucket Server now - but either way is a fully fledged Git{la,hu}b competitor)
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by willthames 11y ago
It doesn't help that Scilly isn't usually used in isolation. Usually the group is referred to as the Isles of Scilly or the Scilly Isles. None of the islands is actually called Scilly.
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by willthames 11y ago
I found a bug in your page! The link to the Gitlab acknowledgements page isn't right (not sure what the correct link should be). Let me know what my bounty will be ;)
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by willthames 11y ago
Or seq -f %04g 1 10
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by willthames 11y ago
Another example is the regulatory requirement for data sovereignty to ensure data remains under the data protection laws of the organisation's country. With hosted Github you have no choice - data will presumably live on mainland US. W
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by willthames 11y ago
You can use ansible as a library from python: http://docs.ansible.com/developing_api.html
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by willthames 11y ago
And the reason for the other approach - global substitution (otherwise the caret approach is simpler) $ ls hello_world hi_there_world $ mv hello_world hello_everyone $ !!:gs/hello/hi_there mv hi_there_world h
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by willthames 11y ago
Stash is far, far cheaper than Github Enterprise, and Stash features have come a long way in the last 18 months. * 250 user Stash license: $12000 first year, $6000 after [1] * 250 user GH Enterprise license: $61750 per year [2] If you need
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by willthames 12y ago
A couple and a couple of hundred are quite different though! The original post suggests ~$2000, not ~200k
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by willthames 12y ago
What a pathetic [1] argument! [1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pathetic
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by willthames 12y ago
You also need to factor in loss of productivity while bringing a new hire into an organisation. They won't be 100% productive (50% might be aspirational for some roles for the first few months) and they will also reduce the productivit
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by willthames 12y ago
Do you have an Operations function in your organisation? As really DevOps is development and operations working together to meet business goals. If you do have an Operations person, you should be working together on things like how you can
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by willthames 12y ago
"tick tocking" was what we called it in our sea cadets corp. It is surprisingly hard to get it right without practice (and then I guess less conscious thought)
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by willthames 12y ago
1941 was not the start of WWII. It started in 1939.
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by willthames 12y ago
You can look at the tags to see the bias of biasedbbc. I'm sure there are plenty of people that would argue that if not pro-conservative, the BBC neglects many of the issues that would be detrimental to current government - the BBC com
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by willthames 12y ago
Ansible is mostly configuration based - Ansible itself is written in python but all you'll typically need to write for most usages is configuration in YAML. So no ruby at all. There are likely existing roles for most things at http:&#
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by willthames 12y ago
On an international site (it's currently 18:30 on Friday evening where I am, for example), populated by people who might not necessarily do 9-5 Mon-Fri, I don't think there's any such thing as non-work-hours If you mean &#x27
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by willthames 12y ago
The above translation should probably just be "belongs in" rather than "belongs to" then. Your clarification helped, thanks.

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