Why software vTPM instances fail on every host with Kolla-Ansible 2025.1, the three config fixes that don't work in 20.x, and the one-layer image that does.
8 min readHow I moved a production Proxmox estate on a Dell M1000e blade chassis to OpenStack on Kolla-Ansible, adopting the existing ZFS zvols in place with a purpose-built TrueNAS Cinder driver, and the eleven things that went …
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I Have been a DevSecOps Engineer / Computer Systems Engineer for roughly 12 years now and i love my job there is always somthing to learn including humbling lessons about being pigheadded and this is one of those times …
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I have recently installed some smart lights in my house in the form of some cheap Mirribela RGB LED bulbs that are powered by ESP32 chips so i can automate some of the lighting functions in my house as my family are …
5 min readNixOSI have recently installed NixOS as i needed a slightly easier to manage work environment for work, And of course as i backed up my old Gentoo installation in preperation of this change i forgot to backup my GPG key and …
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