About me
Contacting Me
Not easy. You should probably refer to the site support page and use the quick comment form, which alas in the past has been seldom checked, but I have nagios checking for comments now... which I might only check every few days.
Unfortunately too many robots were indexing the site and that required the removal of my email address from all webpages that contained it; which cut spam emails by easily 95%; so I won't be putting it back.
Hobbies
Programming
- C
- bash
- bad PHP and CSS for the website
- asm/370 for mvs3.8j as I think of things I need there
VMs
- lots of KVM instances (Debian and Alma) for things I need
- build my own containers (testing under both docker and kubernetes[minikube])
- running the RDO build of OpenStack for a home cloud for testing new software in a single instance or more complicated stack deployments (ie: that need multiple instances and throwing up a stack for docker swarm or K8 clusters, and currently playing with rabbitMQ, where I do not want the hassle or creating actual KVM VMs)
- MVS3.8J running under hercules. Keeping the JCL and asm/370 uo-to-date; or mainly because it is fun
Automation
- puppet for config and package management
- ansible for issuing commands to group of servers (not for configuration); main interest here is writing raw playbooks that do not need python on target machines
- nagios/nrpe for monitoring and using event handlers for recovery... lots of custom plugins written in bash so checks are common across rhel/debian/sunos servers
General home life
- bad photography
- my home lab; that keeps growing
- My three cats, and two strays that stop by for meals as well.