This blog post briefly describes how I got involved with the Cobbler Project, what I managed to get done and why I’m (finally) stepping down as the project lead. ...

In a previous post I described how I migrated this static website from Github Pages to Amazon AWS using services like S3, CloudFront, Route 53 and Amazon Certificate Manager. ...

This website has been happily running on Github Pages for quite some time now. And to be honest I’ve never experienced any issues with that service. Also their pricing is pretty awesome, you can’t beat free, right?! ;-). This is a very simple static website which uses Hugo as the site generator. Anyway, I’m moving this blog over to Amazon AWS so that I have an actual “workload” (yes, I like using big words) to work with in order to get some more hands-on experience in using Amazon AWS services. This also means I will opt for Amazon AWS services even when there might be better or free options available, so please bare that in mind! ...

When dealing with a bunch of servers one of the many things you are expected to do frequently is to update your systems firmware. In this blog post I’ll describe how I implemented this process for HP ProLiant DL servers. ...

For some reason my Fedora 23 Workstation laptop isn’t automatically booting the latest available kernel when kernel updates have been installed. Ofcourse, booting the latest kernel is highly desireable as it increases security by replacing old bugs with new ones :-). In this post I describe the manual method of changing the default boot entry in grub as well as the proper fix for what turns out to be a bug. ...