Oct 2015
So, yeah… Do what? Why would you ever move a 2003 server to Azure? Don’t you know its end of life? Ok, hear me out, but there are times when companies do silly things like install applications that get well rooted, but then the software company goes under or the team that took care of the application was laid off and it went into the the “just reboot it”
Sep 2015
It’s time for another conference. Atlassian is one of those niche conferences in November that I’ll go to this year to focus on how I can help not only our DevOps community but how to better leverage products such as Confluence Wiki, Jira, Crowd and all the other goodies. The fun for me will start on 3 November with 4 hours of practical Jira and Confluence administration tips and tricks.
Sep 2015
I’ve been quite this past month on the blog, but active in the user community. If you’re familiar with meetup.com or even if you’re not, take a look at it again and get active in the space. Topics vary, the people that meet vary, but overall very cool, free access to some of the area’s most technical people presenting in open forums so that we can all learn something new.
Aug 2015
Updating the blog tool set today, I got a little tired of the vanilla code commands. <pre><code></code></pre> There has to be a better way, and of course there is. I settled on Prism Syntax Highlighter Plugin that is available from the wordpress plugins search – Prism Syntax Highlighter for WordPress http://prismjs.com/ It installs in a few simple steps: 1. Install the plugin via the wordpress plugins menu. Search for it,
Aug 2015
With Azure, you’ll see a few standards – a Windows server usually has a C:\ Drive with ~100gb free when you select it from the gallery. A linux server usually has a 30gb sda disk free. Sometimes you need just a tad more on the primary or you have added a second disk and you want some more there as well. Currently, there’s no way to do it in the
Aug 2015
Something useful. Particularly on my Mac. Occasionally, but less commonly these days, I miss the old commands I grew up with. When that happens, there’s two choices. First, suck it up and learn the bash equivalent, or Second, set an alias and forget it. Now, the other value is that you can make an alias do a lot of “stuff” all at once with a simple command.
Jul 2015
New to Linux? I’ve mashed together quite a few resources and added my own references to create two posters to have handy. I recommend printing both on tabloid size paper and of course, hanging them up in your workstation 😉 Linux File Structure: Linux Command Reference: Enjoy 🙂
Centrify, allows for central user management from Active Directory. Works great on multiple platforms, but in this case, we’re using it for the Atlasssian linux boxes. This would actually be great as a part 1.. and if you haven’t started with all this yet, do this first then. Ready? – oK. First up- do a little work on your domain, to add specific groups and users. Preparation for the Linux
So, you thought you were done with the environment. Oh no… not so fast. We still have to setup some sort of SSL offload with nGinx or some other Azure function. We still want to make a “Atlasssian Systems Administrators” Active Directory group, add a few admins to it and setup Centrify on the linux boxes to allow those admins to login. We still have to harden the whole environment.