For those who read my previous post, you might have read that my blog wasn’t served over HTTPS. In this day and age, you certainly want to HTTPS all your web traffic. It offers a lot of benefits, at almost no cost. It’s just a tiny-bit complicated to setup certificates – and I’ll walk you […]
How I moved my blog from wordpress.com to my own hosting
I decided to move my blog from WordPress.com to a self-hosted WordPress. Although it’s been a couple months since the last post here, I want to pick up the rhythm. Karim Vaes picked up his blogging after I nudged him, so I couldn’t stay behind. Before I explain the how though, let me give you […]
How to fix: "e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck! "
This is going to be a short one, and I hope this will save you some time if you hit this same issue. I recently had a VM that didn’t boot anymore. Going to the serial console, I could see it was trying to run fsck on an attached data disk (actually an LVM on […]
I failed the LFCE exam
Yesterday, I took the LFCE exam (Linux Foundation Certified Engineer). My LFCS (Linux Foundation Certified SysAdmin) is expiring, and rather than redoing an exam I did two years ago, I decided to study and take the LFCE exam. Although I still need to wait 3 business day for the actual results, I am fairly certain I failed. […]
Azure PaaS services connected to your VNET
Using PaaS services comes with many benefits: less infrastructure management, simplified scaling and integrated automation to name a few. Consider spinning up a kubernetes cluster yourself vs spinning up an instance of AKS. I’ve done both and I know which experience I’d prefer every day. To misquote a great movie: “With great power, comes less […]