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Alex Crowe

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2016

Kubernetes GCP HTTP Load-Balancer Tips

We are in the midst of deploying a Kubernetes setup for one of our products on GCP using GKE and so far it’s been a g...

2015

Managing Your Puppet World with r10k

Puppet is a great tool for managing your infrastructure, most people start of with a few modules to manage various co...

2014

CoreOS XenServer Install Fix

I’ve been playing around with the new OS on the block CoreOS. After running it locally with Vagrant I wanted to get i...

Building Atom on Ubuntu 14.04

Having seen news GitHub have Open Sourced their take on a text editor I thought I would give it a whirl. There are no...

Changing GitLab Repository Access Rights

We love using GitLab at Pancentric, if you haven’t checked it out you really should. However one minor grip we’ve had...

uWSGI Emperor behind Nginx on Debian

uWSGI is an extremely flexible and fast application server which is rapidly growing in popularity. From its early roo...

2013

Puppet, Hiera and hashes

Puppet is a rapidly evolving tool, since we started using it a couple of years ago the language and tools have improv...

SmartOS as a Monitoring Host

For many in the UNIX world the demise of Sun Microsystems in 2009 was a frustrating experience. Just as Sun appeared ...

The Wonderful Evolving Mobile Landscape

For many the battle for the mobile OS is a done deal. Android won and Apple has slipped into 2nd place, Not too dissi...

Nexenta Build

*please note I started this post awhile ago, so most of this refers to work from last summerFrom my first experience ...

Welcome to my Blog!

Over time I hope to be filling this site with some decent content on all the technical things I do day to day to hope...