DNS in a multi-cloud world

As companies transition to multi-cloud deployments, creating a common way to deploy solutions has become a requirement, this is also easily achieved by using Terraform to create your immutable infrastructure.

The challenge you face is that the infrastructure in a cloud deployment is dynamic …

The getting started guides for using Terraform with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)  https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/getting-started-on-gcp-with-terraform

All suggest using code like this to provide credentials 

1// Configure the Google Cloud provider
2provider "google" {
3 credentials = "${file( …

I have been trying to build a site with Meteor and have slowly started getting stuff working.

One of the ways to populate your development data has been with database seeding.

I wanted to link a user account with a document in one of my collections so I worked this out from the documentation.

You add users to the users …

I was looking for a way to tidy up out photos on the NAS at home and have tried a number of things that just did not fit the bill.

they were either just to difficult or completely wrong.

i then stumbled upon this blog post http://falesafe.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/photo-management/

What a gem. if you can install ruby on …

I am currently helping a customer migrate from Novell to Microsoft and they are using the Quest migrator product to move their data to new DFS servers.

They currently have a large amount of data stored on a number of volumes. The sheer number of volumes and data have required that they deploy a large number of the copy …

I have uploaded some images of the new UI so you can see what it looks like without installing it.

Please let me know what you think.

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A while ago Alex (so_solid_moo to the IRC channel) created a php binding for the Bongo API. He also created the start of the new UI that we are working towards.

We started with the admin ui for now as we have created a user interface with the roundcube project that Alex also integrated with.

I stared porting the …

I recently had to move hosts and guests to a new vcenter server as the old server had become corrupt and full of issues.

The current vcenter has a few custom attributes and notes that would not be transferred as part of the move.

So I wanted to use powercli to read the attributes out and put them back.

To export the …