Linux

Another quick note on my very simple (single-node) Kubernetes setup in my home lab. ...

I needed to on-board the Linux system logs of all my homelab systems into Splunk. Apparantly I haven’t been paying attention… but only now I noticed that in EL8 (CentOS in my case) rsyslog is not even installed by default. So that prompted me to finally take a closer look into journald, this resulted in a very simple Splunk TA that can be deployed to any Splunk instance to ingest the journald logs. ...

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. ...

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. ...