chrisshort.nethttps://chrisshort.net/Recent content on chrisshort.netHugo -- gohugo.iochris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)Tue, 24 Mar 2020 13:15:00 +0000Things no one tells you when you start a newsletterhttps://chrisshort.net/things-no-one-tells-you-when-you-start-a-newsletter/Tue, 24 Mar 2020 13:15:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/things-no-one-tells-you-when-you-start-a-newsletter/There were a lot of reasons I started writing a newsletter back in 2016. Having worked at a few organizations whose business was sending millions of emails a day, one thing is for sure: Mail is hard and not for the faint of heart. Using a service that handles mail delivery is step one, in my opinion. After that, I figured a newsletter is, &ldquo;sending an email every week.Open Source Initiative Board of Directors 2020https://chrisshort.net/open-source-initiative-board-of-directors-2020/Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:55:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/open-source-initiative-board-of-directors-2020/The 2020 election for the Open Source Initiative Board of Directors is rapidly approaching. Before going to IBM FastStart in Las Vegas last week, I nominated myself for a seat on the board as an Individual Member. I spoke with a few friends in the months prior to submitting my nomination. It sounds like OSI could use my help.
&ldquo;Open source software has done nothing but provide opportunity after opportunity in my life.Kubernetes Illustrated Children's Guidehttps://chrisshort.net/kubernetes-illustrated-childrens-guide/Sun, 26 Jan 2020 20:10:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/kubernetes-illustrated-childrens-guide/From the original The Illustrated Children&rsquo;s Guide to Kubernetes blog post:
Meet Phippy–the intrepid little PHP app–and her journey to Kubernetes. What better way to talk to your parents, friends, and co-workers about this Kubernetes thing you keep going on about, than a little story time. We give to you The Illustrated Children&rsquo;s Guide to Kubernetes, conceived of and narrated by our own Matt Butcher and lovingly illustrated by Bailey Beougher.2019 Learnings, 2020 Expectationshttps://chrisshort.net/2019-learnings-2020-expectations/Wed, 01 Jan 2020 07:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/2019-learnings-2020-expectations/A former co-worker and now friend has a tagline, “Every day is a school day.” I remind myself of this fact almost every time I learn something new. 2019 was the hardest year of my life. I&rsquo;d like to share some things I picked up on this most recent journey around the sun we call 2019. I&rsquo;ll make some predictions about 2020 in the process too.
Kubernetes Last year, I said I thought Kubernetes would get easier.A getting to know you exercisehttps://chrisshort.net/a-getting-to-know-you-exercise/Fri, 20 Dec 2019 07:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/a-getting-to-know-you-exercise/In November, I went down to Raleigh to meet my team for planning meetings and team building. For a few of my teammates, this is our first face to face interaction with each other ever. My boss wisely gave us a relatively simple assignment. Create a slide sharing what we&rsquo;ve done this year and want to do next year (which I&rsquo;ll share to an extent in a later post). Create another slide listing three things that make us who we are (born in a unique place, grew up on a farm, etc.Security at Cloud Native Speedhttps://chrisshort.net/cfp/security-at-cloud-native-speed/Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:33:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/cfp/security-at-cloud-native-speed/Abstract Cloud native technologies are increasingly used by organizations to provide a competitive advantage. Containers and Kubernetes jumpstart developer productivity but, they could increase security teams&rsquo; workloads. Threat vectors span cloud providers, control planes, developer tooling, and applications in environment hybrid environments. Use these technologies and cultures to improve security and reduce blast radius while improving velocity. This talk will analyze human tendencies and provide tips to improve security postures in cloud native environments.DevOpsDays Detroit 2019 Trip Reporthttps://chrisshort.net/devopsdays-detroit-2019-trip-report/Sat, 26 Oct 2019 13:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/devopsdays-detroit-2019-trip-report/Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat, my views and opinions are solely mine though.
I spoke, sponsored (as did Red Hat, my employer, thank you), and worked from the front row of DevOpsDays Detroit 2019 this week. The event sold out for the first time this year. The venue has been the College for Creative Studies in downtown Detroit for the past four years.
The venue is awesome, in my opinion, because it puts systems thinkers in a venue space on top of an arts school overflowing with creative ideas.DevOpsDays Raleigh 2019 Trip Reporthttps://chrisshort.net/devopsdays-raleigh-2019-trip-report/Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:45:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/devopsdays-raleigh-2019-trip-report/Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat, my views and opinions are solely mine though.
I had the pleasure of speaking at and attending DevOpsDays Raleigh 2019. First off, this event routinely out punches its weight class as far as quality. Don&rsquo;t get me wrong the McKimmon Center on NC State&rsquo;s campus has gotten very dated but, this five-year-old event keeps getting better.
Note: If you are not familiar with DevOpsDays, please consider attending one near you in the next year.AnsibleFest Atlanta 2019 Trip Reporthttps://chrisshort.net/ansiblefest-atlanta-2019-trip-report/Mon, 14 Oct 2019 14:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/ansiblefest-atlanta-2019-trip-report/Background: I started using Ansible in 2014 at a datacenter company. I implemented Ansible to deploy our customer portal, which contained hundreds of war files, load balancer changes, database schema changes, etc. I&rsquo;ve used Ansible at every position since. I joined Red Hat as part of the Ansible team in June 2018. I moved over to the OpenShift team in June 2019. I&rsquo;m a long time Ansible user, advocate, and fan.Webinarshttps://chrisshort.net/webinars/Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:15:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/webinars/If you'd like to discuss having me speak at your conference, Meetup, podcast, webinar, etc. please send me a message. Thanks!
Contour – High performance ingress controller for Kubernetes Date: 2019-10-10
Source: Contour – High performance ingress controller for Kubernetes — CNCF
YouTube: Contour - High Performance Ingress Controller for Kubernetes — CNCF
Download: MP4
Building Kubernetes Operators in an Ansible-native way Date: 2019-10-09
Source: Building Kubernetes Operators in an Ansible-native way — CNCFTactical efficiency does not replace strategic efficacyhttps://chrisshort.net/tactical-efficiency-does-not-replace-strategic-efficacy/Sun, 29 Sep 2019 16:15:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/tactical-efficiency-does-not-replace-strategic-efficacy/I used to think of industry analysts as 100% worthless to the broader technology world. After meeting Chris Gardner from Forrester, some of the good folks from RedMonk, and working with Red Hat&rsquo;s Analyst Relations team, I&rsquo;ve warmed up to Analysts a little. They serve an important function that a lot of us forget:
Tactical efficiency does not replace strategic efficacy We as technologists spend a lot of our time tackling the next problem put in front of us.Seth Vargo says hell no—puts Chef on ICEhttps://chrisshort.net/seth-vargo-says-hell-noputs-chef-on-ice/Sun, 22 Sep 2019 12:15:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/seth-vargo-says-hell-noputs-chef-on-ice/Just when you thought a toxic, old, white guy with lousy hygiene was going to dominate the news this week, in walks Seth Vargo. On Thursday, Seth Vargo, a former Chef employee, learned something he wasn&rsquo;t comfortable with about code he&rsquo;d written. Seth discovered Chef had an active contract with the US Department of Homeland Security&rsquo;s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (yes, that one). Seth then did something rather extraordinary. He yanked his code (including chef-sugar) from GitHub and RubyGems.Your 39 bps matters more than you thinkhttps://chrisshort.net/your-39-bps-matters-more-than-you-think/Tue, 10 Sep 2019 18:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/your-39-bps-matters-more-than-you-think/A slightly shorter version of this article was featured in DevOps&rsquo;ish 144: Your 39 bps matters, happy little hybrid clouds, Kubernetes with a side of service mesh, HA SQLite, and more
This week I read about a study of 17 languages that suggests humans, &ldquo;no matter how fast or slowly languages are spoken, they tend to send information at about the same rate: 39 bits per second, about twice the speed of Morse code.Joining forces with OpenShifthttps://chrisshort.net/joining-forces-with-openshift/Sun, 18 Aug 2019 07:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/joining-forces-with-openshift/This Monday (2019-08-19) will be my first day as Principal Technical Marketing Manager on the Cloud Platforms team at Red Hat. What does that mean? OpenShift (a lot of OpenShift), Kubernetes, containers, Operators, and all the associated bits will be my day job. Helping folks help themselves with technology is still and always will be the name of my game. But, working full time in the Kubernetes or cloud native ecosystem was a 2020 goal.Résuméhttps://chrisshort.net/resume/Sun, 18 Aug 2019 07:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/resume/Chris Short Professional Summary Results-producing, passionate DevOps professional turned Technical Marketer and community advocate. Cloud Native Computing Foundation Ambassador, Kubernetes SIG-ContribEx member, public speaker, personal and professional blogger/writer, founder of DevOps&rsquo;ish, and believer in open source principles bettering interactions and promoting conversations. Technology exists to improve human existence.
Professional Experience Principal Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat — Detroit, MI — Aug 2019 to Present Primary community interface as a CNCF Ambassador who is also focused on Operators and their usage for operations teams; led Ansible Operator workshops at AnsibleFest and Red Hat Summit Acted as a liaison between an Infosec team and a product team after a critical vulnerability was discovered; facilitated responsible disclosure of the vulnerability Built workshops, Katacoda, and other instructional materials to enabling field to be informed about Red Hat&rsquo;s cloud native offerings plus, competitive intelligence to position products in the market Worked with Red Hat D+I, Events teams to make inclusive, constructive learning spaces at events Evangelized Red Hat and many other open source offerings through official CNCF communications Gave five talks in three days for IBM FastStart 2020; taught sellers and partners on the advantages of OpenShift for AI/ML workloads, monitoring capabilities of Prometheus, and technical roadmaps Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat — Detroit, MI — Jun 2018 to Aug 2019 Evangelized Kubernetes Operators with Ansible in Business Unit by engaging leadership to prove importance; scheduled developers on podcast, worked w/ team to build landing page, and presented talks at Red Hat Summit 2019 Ansible blog curator, editor, and sometimes writer, room facilitator, survey staff management, and official after party event security for AnsibleFest 2018 in Austin, TX Speaker and content creator for multiple public and private Red Hat events over the globe; enabled field to sell and market Ansible to customers intelligently Instrumental in bringing community projects into the Red Hat Ansible Automation suite of tools; helped establish standards for testing and acceptance as well as scoring of Ansible content Selected by leadership, peers as Red Hat Product Marketing Awards — Best New Red Hatter 2019 Cloud Native Ambassador, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) — Detroit, MI — Jan 2018 to Present Evangelizes Kubernetes ecosystem through independent newsletter DevOps&rsquo;ish; concentration on open source, cloud native, and DevOps; 3300+ subscribers, 48%+ open rate, 22%+ click rate since Dec 2016 KubeWeekly curator, Kubernetes YouTube channel admin, Contributor Summit workshop facilitator, Community Meeting and webinar moderator, and SIG-ContribEx member Advocating for Kubernetes Operators with Ansible both within Red Hat as well as evangelizing their use externally through targeted conversations and wider content strategy Built rak8s: A usable, open source project to demonstrate Ansible being used to stand up a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster With the help of other Kubernetes community members, created the first ever #KubeKhan at KubeCon Seattle 2018; brought together community members in a come as you are environment Senior DevOps Advocate, SJ Technologies — Detroit, MI — Jan 2018 to Jun 2018 Built Ansible-based infrastructure testing tool to identify quality concerns between functional areas delivering virtual machines; suggested remedies to reduce handoffs and increase automation Set up Ansible automation to deploy Confluent Kafka; built OpenShift deployment for high-availability Kafka UI Represented SJ Technologies as a public speaker at events across North America; spread our DevOps practice message in talks based on research, experiences, and observations Worked with BizDev, Sales, and Marketing teams to build new customer relationships, marketing materials to attract customers, and leveraged social media to build branding Manager of DevOps, Bankrate.Building Kubernetes Operators in an Ansible-native wayhttps://chrisshort.net/cfp/building-kubernetes-operators-with-ansible/Wed, 07 Aug 2019 14:37:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/cfp/building-kubernetes-operators-with-ansible/If you'd like to discuss having me speak at your conference, Meetup, podcast, webinar, etc. please send me a message. Thanks!
Learn how Ansible can help developers (or any systems savvy person) quickly ramp up to build Operators to automate and manage the life cycle of complex Kubernetes applications.
Elevator Pitch Operators simplify management of complex applications on Kubernetes. They are usually written in Go and require expertise with the internals of Kubernetes, but there&rsquo;s an alternative to that with a lower barrier to entry for all.Use The Force, Larry: Oracle Playing Politics with Nation's Defensehttps://chrisshort.net/use-the-force-larry-oracle-playing-politics-with-nations-defense/Mon, 29 Jul 2019 07:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/use-the-force-larry-oracle-playing-politics-with-nations-defense/This article is based on the introduction to DevOps&rsquo;ish on 2019-07-28. Some parts are duplicated but this is a much deeper dive than I could do in the newsletter (and these 1500 words barely do the topic justice). Also, yes, I work for Red Hat. Yes, I&rsquo;m a CNCF Ambassador. No, these views do not represent theirs. Please take a moment to read my disclaimer. Above all things, I&rsquo;m an American, and this issue trancends business.How to Teach Old Apps New Tricks with Ansible-based Operators (Parts 1 & 2)https://chrisshort.net/how-to-teach-old-apps-new-tricks-with-ansible-based-operators-parts-1-2/Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:50:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/how-to-teach-old-apps-new-tricks-with-ansible-based-operators-parts-1-2/At Red Hat Summit this year, I had the task of explaining Kubernetes Operators with Ansible in two, fifteen-minute talks, separated by three hours, in the middle of the busy Red Hat booth to anyone that walked up. I had to explain Kubernetes, the difference stateful and stateless apps, what a Kubernetes Operator is, how to write an operator with Ansible, and then demonstrate this capability. Use of video and sound was discouraged.Upstream vs Downstreamhttps://chrisshort.net/upstream-vs-downstream/Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:19:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/upstream-vs-downstream/I was working on things for work (as one does) when it dawned on me. Very few folks understand the difference between upstream and downstream as it relates to open source software. I used Red Hat projects as a pointer. Here is the output of that effort (which was scratching the surface).
Upstream vs. Downstream Upstream vs. Downstream is confusing at times. But, for the bigger Red Hat projects this holds true:The Secret to Kubernetes Secretshttps://chrisshort.net/the-secret-to-kubernetes-secrets/Tue, 28 May 2019 11:10:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/the-secret-to-kubernetes-secrets/I made an innocent comment on Twitter last week that led to WAY more feedback than I was expecting. The Kubernetes community showed me there are a lot of options when creating Kubernetes Secrets. I made the statement:
Every single time I have to create a secret, I have to read the docs. I should have this figured out by now.&rdquo;
Years ago, a colleague asked Albert Einstein if he knew his phone number.Verify @ashleymcnamarahttps://chrisshort.net/verify-ashleymcnamara/Tue, 02 Apr 2019 07:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/verify-ashleymcnamara/认证 @ashleymcnamara is a form of peaceful protest to have Ashley McNamara verified on Twitter. Please consider doing something similar with your own Twitter profile.
The how and the why follows.
The Blue Check Twitter&rsquo;s verified account program is rife with poor choices and questionable decisions. From verifying Nazis and folks that build brands on hate to not verifying respected people, verification is a problem for Twitter. Make no mistake, I know this is not an easy problem.subtweethttps://chrisshort.net/subtweet/Sat, 19 Jan 2019 00:05:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/subtweet/A subtweet is such a common thing that it has entered the English lexicon. The term itself has a very specific meaning according to Oxford Living Dictionaries:
(on the social media application Twitter) a post that refers to a particular user without directly mentioning them, typically as a form of furtive mockery or criticism.
‘while he didn&rsquo;t include Smith&rsquo;s Twitter handle, that didn&rsquo;t stop Smith from seeing the post, taking umbrage, and firing off a subtweet of his own&rsquo;c14s for Shorthttps://chrisshort.net/c14s-for-short/Tue, 08 Jan 2019 07:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/c14s-for-short/I had a random thought pop into my head during a conversation one night so I tweeted it, &ldquo;Christophernetes&rdquo;
Christophernetes
&mdash; Chris Short (@ChrisShort) January 5, 2019
Then Brandon Dimcheff chimed in with a very appropriate shortening, &ldquo;c14s&rdquo;
c14s?
&mdash; Brandon Dimcheff (@bdimcheff) January 5, 2019
Then Andy Randall chime in with what is now my display name on Twitter, &ldquo;c14s for Short&rdquo;
You mean “C14s for Short”?Shrughttps://chrisshort.net/shrug/Mon, 07 Jan 2019 18:06:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/shrug/Normal Shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Markdown Shrug ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Emoji Shrug 🤷‍♀️ 🤷‍♂️ This is how often I copy the damn emoji: https://t.co/SfNmYVym8G
&mdash; Chris Short (@ChrisShort) January 7, 2019I'm a Red Hat Certified Specialist: Ansible Automationhttps://chrisshort.net/im-a-red-hat-certified-specialist-ansible-automation/Mon, 07 Jan 2019 07:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/im-a-red-hat-certified-specialist-ansible-automation/The last week of November 2018, I made a trip to the Red Hat office in Westford, MA. I was enrolled in Automation with Ansible I (DO407) with exam (EX407) class. One of my co-workers scoffed when I told him I was going. He didn&rsquo;t seem to quite understand why I wanted a certification I don&rsquo;t need (I do work for Ansible now after all). I hope to address that and why Product and Marketing people should get certified (not only Ops).2018 Learnings, 2019 Expectationshttps://chrisshort.net/2018-learnings-2019-expectations/Fri, 28 Dec 2018 23:20:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/2018-learnings-2019-expectations/A former co-worker and now friend used to have a tagline, “Everyday is a school day.” I remind myself of this fact nearly every time I learn something new. Overall, 2018 was great for me professionally. I&rsquo;d like to share some things I picked up on this most recent journey around the sun we call 2018. I&rsquo;ll make some predictions about 2019 in the process too.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.My KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2018 Recaphttps://chrisshort.net/my-kubecon-cloudnativecon-na-2018-recap/Fri, 21 Dec 2018 17:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/my-kubecon-cloudnativecon-na-2018-recap/I went to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 in Seattle, Washington this week. My trip was cut short due to a work meeting in Raleigh, NC. But, I definitely pushed myself to my limits in Seattle. Make no mistake, had I been staying the entire week as planned I would not have done the time on site the way I did. I wore quite a few hats on this trip:'Tis the Season of Family Tech Supporthttps://chrisshort.net/tis-the-season-of-family-tech-support/Tue, 20 Nov 2018 07:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/tis-the-season-of-family-tech-support/It&rsquo;s the most wonderful time of year! When everyone gets together with family or friends they haven&rsquo;t seen in who knows how long. Of course, the topic of Trump, social media, and burnt gravy stories will come up. But, my personal favorite topic is, &ldquo;I have this issue with PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY XYZ. Please help me!&rdquo;
Luckily, despite having not worked on anything other than Mac and Linux the past seven years, I don&rsquo;t get too many wild questions from family.One Fish, Two Fish, Blue Fish Sporting New Red Hathttps://chrisshort.net/one-fish-two-fish-blue-fish-sporting-new-red-hat/Fri, 02 Nov 2018 07:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/one-fish-two-fish-blue-fish-sporting-new-red-hat/Since Sunday afternoon, I&rsquo;ve been in a whirlwind of meetings, discussions, and calls about IBM&rsquo;s plan to acquire Red Hat for $34 billion. My mind has been racing but, after some consideration, I&rsquo;ve decided to share my thoughts as a narrative timeline. Trust me when say that I have given this format considerable thought. It is likely the safest way (regulatory-wise) to deliver my thoughts on the topic.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish!Terms of Servicehttps://chrisshort.net/terms/Thu, 01 Nov 2018 17:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/terms/Terms By accessing the website at https://chrisshort.net, you are agreeing to be bound by these terms of service, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this website are protected by applicable copyright and trademark lawProjectshttps://chrisshort.net/projects/Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:53:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/projects/Like anyone who has worked on the web long enough, I have a lot of side projects. Some of them are big, some are small. Some are modestly popular, others are barely noticed. But, they are also scattered across the web too. This page serves as a one-stop shop for all my projects big and small, young and old. Pull requests are welcomed!!!
DevOps&rsquo;ish DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, and the ‘ish in between.Talks Givenhttps://chrisshort.net/speaking/Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:53:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/speaking/If you'd like to discuss having me speak at your conference, Meetup, podcast, webinar, etc. please send me a message. Thanks!
DevOps is Not War Date: 2019-10-23
Event: DevOpsDays Detroit 2019
Slides: DevOps is Not War — DevOpsDays Detroit 2019
Blog post: DevOpsDays Detroit 2019 Trip Report
DevOps is Not War Date: 2019-10-01
Event: Event: DevOpsDays Raleigh 2019
Slides: DevOps is Not War — DevOpsDays Raleigh 2019
YouTube: DevOps is Not War - Chris ShortPublicationshttps://chrisshort.net/publications/Tue, 14 Aug 2018 21:25:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/publications/Chris Short&rsquo;s ansible.com blog posts are available here: https://www.ansible.com/blog/author/chris-short
Ansible Operators October 2019 Update During this month&rsquo;s Operator Framework SIG Meeting, I presented an update on the latest happenings with Ansible Operators (slides here). I touched on a few topics that I wanted to share with the greater universe.
How DevOps is like auto racing To achieve their goals, race teams don&rsquo;t think from start to finish; they flip the table to look at the race from the end goal to the beginning.The Importance of Psychological Safetyhttps://chrisshort.net/the-importance-of-psychological-safety/Wed, 08 Aug 2018 07:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/the-importance-of-psychological-safety/I have mentioned this a few times in various talks, on social media, and in my newsletter; the importance of psychological safety in creating effective teams is often overlooked. Google did an enormous amount of research to determine, &ldquo;the secrets of effective teams at Google.&rdquo; Code-named Project Aristotle, Google wanted to nail down, once and for all, what factors contributed to team effectiveness.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Military Phrases For Use in DevOpshttps://chrisshort.net/military-phrases-for-use-in-devops/Mon, 23 Jul 2018 07:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/military-phrases-for-use-in-devops/An edited version of this article was originally written for opensource.com: 5 military phrases for DevOps practitioners
The U.S. military is known for quite a few things, including its excessive and fascinating use of acronyms, euphemisms, and colorful phrases to describe certain situations. But many of these terms are applicable to other areas of life, including many non-military jobs. These are a few phrases I think crossover between both DevOps and the armed forces.Joining Ansible Team at Red Hathttps://chrisshort.net/joining-ansible-team-at-red-hat/Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/joining-ansible-team-at-red-hat/tl;dr &ldquo;It is with great pleasure that I announce I am joining the Ansible team at Red Hat as Principal Product Marketing Manager.&rdquo;
In The Beginning&hellip; In 1998, I was working at a dial-up ISP in Hickory, NC. We were heavily invested in Windows and needed to reduce costs and increase speed. My CEO at the time had the foresight to know that Linux was the future. She hired two engineers to transform the business into a Red Hat Linux based ISP.What the Military Taught Me About DevOps Graphic Recordinghttps://chrisshort.net/drawings/what-the-military-taught-me-about-devops-graphic-recording/Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:45:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/drawings/what-the-military-taught-me-about-devops-graphic-recording/I presented my What the Military Taught Me About DevOps talk to a large crowd at DevOpsDays Toronto 2018. Off to the side of the stage was Ashton from Minds Eye Creative. A beautiful piece of art was created from my talk and I cannot thank the DevOpsDays Toronto organizers enough for it.Baltimore Go June Meeting - Go to the Rescue: Saving DevOps from TLS Turmoilhttps://chrisshort.net/baltimore-go-june-meeting-go-to-the-rescue-saving-devops-from-tls-turmoil/Fri, 08 Jun 2018 01:22:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/baltimore-go-june-meeting-go-to-the-rescue-saving-devops-from-tls-turmoil/I was in the DC metro area when I received an e-mail about the Baltimore Go Meetup happening on June 5th. Since I was nearby, I decided to go ahead and RSVP to the event. I mentioned this on Twitter and shortly thereafter Johnny Boursiquot wondered if I could speak.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.DevNationFederal 2018: DevOps is Not Warhttps://chrisshort.net/devnationfederal-2018-devops-is-not-war/Thu, 07 Jun 2018 22:20:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/devnationfederal-2018-devops-is-not-war/Red Hat invited me to speak at DevNationFederal. The organizers requested I present my DevOps is Not War talk to technologists in the Washington DC area. This crowd is a group of folks that are at varying points in their DevOps journeys. Many folks from government agencies and systems integrators were present.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.DevOpsDays Toronto 2018: What the Military Taught Me About DevOpshttps://chrisshort.net/devopsdays-toronto-2018-what-the-military-taught-me-about-devops/Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/devopsdays-toronto-2018-what-the-military-taught-me-about-devops/I was lucky enough to be selected to speak at DevOpsDays Toronto. This was my first trip into Canada and I have to admit, it was amazing! The city of Toronto is a very diverse city teeming with culture. The speaker dinner was at a wonderful restaurant Eastern Mediterrean restaurant, Byblos. If you are ever in Toronto, I suggest you go to Byblos and get the Turkish Manti Dumplings. I don&rsquo;t typically enjoy eggplant but these dumplings are superb!ChefConf 2018: DevOps is Not Warhttps://chrisshort.net/chefconf-2018-devops-is-not-war/Tue, 29 May 2018 15:39:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/chefconf-2018-devops-is-not-war/If you read DevOps&rsquo;ish, you already know I spoke at ChefConf 2018. I was able to meet 1,400 new friends while I was in Chicago (not really but kinda). I presented my talk, DevOps is Not War to a standing room only audience.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Being a Veteran in Today's Americahttps://chrisshort.net/being-a-veteran-in-todays-america/Sun, 27 May 2018 15:45:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/being-a-veteran-in-todays-america/This was originally posted as a thread on Twitter. But, at the suggestion of a few friends, I&rsquo;m turning it into an article here. Please understand that this is my opinion.
A few things have bothered me the past couple of weeks about how Americans &ldquo;respect&rdquo; veterans. While I served, I appreciated the recognition at sporting events and ceremonies for active duty personnel. But, now that I&rsquo;m a civilian, I have strong feelings about how veterans should conduct themselves in today&rsquo;s America.Writing Technical Articleshttps://chrisshort.net/writing-technical-articles/Fri, 25 May 2018 22:43:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/writing-technical-articles/I was helping to staff the Cloud Native Computing Foundation booth at ChefConf 2018 when the topic of encouraging folks to write articles about what they&rsquo;re doing with Kubernetes came up. One common problem often encountered is convincing folks that what they&rsquo;re doing is interesting work. The next problem is convincing folks that writing is not too difficult.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.DevOps Hiring Guidehttps://chrisshort.net/devops-hiring-guide/Wed, 16 May 2018 13:15:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/devops-hiring-guide/The opensource.com DevOps Community and The Enterprisers Project teamed up to create the quintessential guide to hiring for DevOps talent. I contributed the Introduction and the article, &ldquo;DevOps hiring strategies to attract top talent&rdquo;. This was a significant amount of work from all parties and I love how quickly and beautifully it came together. Hats off to Jason Hibbets and the folks at Red Hat that helped put this together.Detroit Kubernetes: Kubernetes Cron Jobshttps://chrisshort.net/detroit-kubernetes-kubernetes-cron-jobs/Mon, 30 Apr 2018 18:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/detroit-kubernetes-kubernetes-cron-jobs/I spoke at Detroit Kubernetes, Docker &amp; all related things about Kubernetes Cron Jobs. The talk was more like an explanation with a demo. My demo skills are non-existent so I needed to build those a little. Overall, the demo went well. But, I feel like the zoom feature in Visual Studio Code needs some work. I ended up in iTerm2 using vim to make up for the oddities VSCode threw at me.AWS Michigan: Heaven is Not a Cloudhttps://chrisshort.net/aws-michigan-heaven-is-not-a-cloud/Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/aws-michigan-heaven-is-not-a-cloud/I recently spoke at AWS Michigan about cloud migrations. The talk wasn&rsquo;t AWS specific but we sure did talk about it a ton. From defining cloud to addressing priorities to preventing cost overruns we covered a lot during the meetup. I was peppered with questions by a lively audience. After speaking on stage at DevOpsDays Atlanta 2018, there was this awkward moment for me when the first question was asked.DevOpsDays Atlanta 2018: DevOps is Not Warhttps://chrisshort.net/devopsdays-atlanta-2018-devops-is-not-war/Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:45:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/devopsdays-atlanta-2018-devops-is-not-war/I went to DevOpsDays Atlanta for the first time this week. I hadn&rsquo;t been in Atlanta in a very long time. It sure has changed a ton. Originally, I was going to help run the SJ Technologies booth. But, a speaker had to back out at the last minute and I was asked to fill the spot. I was working on a talk for ChefConf so I quickly finished that up and gave it to the good folks at DevOpsDays Atlanta.Microsoft Has Come a Long Wayhttps://chrisshort.net/microsoft-has-come-a-long-way/Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/microsoft-has-come-a-long-way/Microsoft has come a very long way in its fight back into the graces of all technologists. There will be some die hards that will never forgive Microsoft for what it attempted to do to open source software. Like there will be some die hards that won&rsquo;t embrace PowerShell, WSL, and future Microsoft improvements. But, there is no denying that Microsoft has changed as a company in a way that is beneficial to the open source community and beyond.Lessons Learned from Cloud Migrations: Planning is Everythinghttps://chrisshort.net/cfp/cloud-migration-lessons-learned/Wed, 07 Mar 2018 14:49:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/cfp/cloud-migration-lessons-learned/Abstract &ldquo;Migrating to the cloud saves money!&rdquo; &ldquo;Not running your own infrastructure reduces your bottom line!&rdquo; &ldquo;Lift and shift is a legitimate first step towards moving to the cloud!&rdquo; These are all potential pitfalls if you&rsquo;re not careful. Proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Using a real chaotic cloud migration as a guide, we&rsquo;ll walk through the pitfalls of cloud migrations and how to avoid them and the terrifying vendor lock-in (when it makes sense).DevOps is Not Warhttps://chrisshort.net/cfp/devops-is-not-war/Fri, 02 Mar 2018 12:31:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/cfp/devops-is-not-war/Abstract Over the past 500 years, there have been 16 cases of a rising power threatening to displace a ruling power. 75% of those cases resulted in war. Although your organizational transformation probably won&rsquo;t lead to war, it could be contentious. History can help prevent conflict when driving change. This talk will analyze human tendencies, historical data, and provide real-world examples of how to avoid conflict during your DevOps journey.Kubernetes Cron Jobs: Dreams Really Do Come Truehttps://chrisshort.net/cfp/kubernetes-cron-jobs-dreams-do-come-true/Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:22:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/cfp/kubernetes-cron-jobs-dreams-do-come-true/Abstract I worked for a large company with several hundred cron jobs running on two systems. Managing these jobs was cumbersome. Resource use during peak times brought things to a halt. Imagine what it was like when systems were down! In this talk, we discuss Kubernetes&rsquo; killer feature: Cron Jobs.
Description Kubernetes, Jobs, and Cron Jobs What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes has the concept of Jobs Kubernetes Cron Jobs are a relatively new thing Use Case Former employer had several hundred cron jobs running on two systems Resource contention during peak times brought the systems to a halt If one cron job didn&rsquo;t run it was hard to determine what task failed or didn&rsquo;t run based on user tickets Chaos if the systems were offline for one reason or another Using minikube and Docker running locally&hellip;DevOpsDays Charlotte 2018 Ignite Talk on Gohttps://chrisshort.net/devopsdays-charlotte-2018-ignite-talk-on-go/Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:45:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/devopsdays-charlotte-2018-ignite-talk-on-go/All other DevOpsDays events should be put on notice. DevOpsDays Charlotte 2018 set the bar unattainably high for the quality of the venue and speaker line up. It&rsquo;ll be insanely hard to beat the great folks who spoke in Charlotte this year. Almost every talk was a home run. The Red Ventures facility was also jaw dropping. Also, I don&rsquo;t think we could have asked for a more inviting and welcoming speaker lounge either.DevOps 101https://chrisshort.net/cfp/devops-101/Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:15:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/cfp/devops-101/Abstract With the need to build, test and release software more rapidly, frequently and reliably the concept of DevOps has never been more popular, and to a degree, more misunderstood.
DevOps skills are consistently highly sought after and in huge demand, yet at the same time little education and training is available in both the professional world and in higher education.
This meeting will address both issues for both entry level professionals and those more advanced.Go to the rescue: Saving DevOps from TLS turmoilhttps://chrisshort.net/cfp/go-to-the-rescue-saving-devops-from-tls-turmoil/Fri, 23 Feb 2018 06:15:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/cfp/go-to-the-rescue-saving-devops-from-tls-turmoil/Abstract Find out about a use case that created a need for testing certificate chains, appropriate web server security settings, and the Go code used for testing.
Description Talk would be based on this article: https://opensource.com/article/17/4/testing-certificate-chains-34-line-go-program
If you ever need to validate certificates or certificate chains before deploying them, Go provides a near foolproof test method.
A 3rd party developed a tool that was then handed off to our DevOps team to manage and maintain.Go: Enabling DevOps to Go Fasterhttps://chrisshort.net/cfp/go-enabling-devops/Fri, 23 Feb 2018 06:15:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/cfp/go-enabling-devops/Abstract What is Go? It&rsquo;s not just another programming language. Go was made with very specific goals in mind by very experienced people. Go&rsquo;s ideals align quite well with DevOps principles. In this talk we explore why DevOps professionals should be learning and utilizing Go in their organizations.
Description What is Go? What wasn&rsquo;t good enough with other languages? Who made Go? The Go/Google Connection as it Stands Today What is Go Good At?The Dark Side of DevOpshttps://chrisshort.net/cfp/dark-side-of-devops/Fri, 23 Feb 2018 06:15:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/cfp/dark-side-of-devops/Abstract People think that DevOps, Cloud Native, Agile, GROWS, etc. are all rainbows and roses. You start small, work your way up or you decide as an organizational unit to change. These are two patterns associated with a Jedi-type maturation process of DevOps. Like in Star Wars, DevOps has a dark side. This talk provides examples of successful and failed DevOps transformations as well as some lessons learned along the way.What the Military Taught Me About DevOpshttps://chrisshort.net/cfp/what-the-military-taught-me-about-devops/Fri, 23 Feb 2018 06:15:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/cfp/what-the-military-taught-me-about-devops/Abstract Before DevOps was coined an entire branch of the US military was living by its core fundamentals. Visualizing work, flow, diversity, failing fast are all things that I practiced in the Air Force from 1999 to 2010. I&rsquo;d like to share my lessons learned serving during this time. This talk will broaden people&rsquo;s view of how DevOps can be implemented, why diversity matters in DevOps, and how fortunate we all are to have the problems we have today.Open Source 101 Raleigh 2018https://chrisshort.net/open-source-101-raleigh-2018/Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:45:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/open-source-101-raleigh-2018/I had the opportunity to attend and speak at Open Source 101 at NC State&rsquo;s McKimmon Center for Extension &amp; Continuing Education this past weekend. It&rsquo;s always nice to visit Raleigh, NC and Red Hat Tower. I met several awesome attendees and speakers while I was in town too. The All Things Open team did an absolutely fantastic job at every facet of this conference. If you have the opportunity to attend one of these events you most definitely should!Kubernetes: Cron Jobshttps://chrisshort.net/kubernetes-cron-jobs/Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:10:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/kubernetes-cron-jobs/One of the reasons I stood up a Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pis in my house was because of the savings I wanted to gain by not running high-available, redundant infrastructure in the cloud. Kubernetes provides high-availability by design. It&rsquo;s pretty awesome the possibilities that exist given this capability. Need a web server to constantly run? Build a container and throw it in the Kubernetes cluster. Need a service available all the time?Orchestructure January 2018 Meetuphttps://chrisshort.net/orchestructure-january-2018-meetup/Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/orchestructure-january-2018-meetup/I spoke at the first Orchestructure Meetup of 2018. I have to admit, this is probably the smoothest run Meetup I&rsquo;ve been a part of for quite some time. That&rsquo;s not to say other Meetups weren&rsquo;t well organized. But, Mario, Bob, and Jorge have their poop in a group. Orchestructure is one great Meetup. If you&rsquo;re in Michigan, you&rsquo;re missing out if you haven&rsquo;t attended.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Chris Short named Cloud Native Ambassadorhttps://chrisshort.net/chris-short-named-cloud-native-ambassador/Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:45:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/chris-short-named-cloud-native-ambassador/While I was in Austin for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 I was told about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Ambassador program. After reading up on it and experiencing the first day of the conference I decided to apply to become a Cloud Native Ambassador. The responsibilities are right in line with what I&rsquo;m trying to do in Detroit. I would love to continue my community building around cloud native and open source projects.LinkedIn Mentor Monday Detroithttps://chrisshort.net/linkedin-mentor-monday-detroit/Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:15:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/linkedin-mentor-monday-detroit/I had the opportunity to be a mentor at LinkedIn Mentor Monday Detroit. It was a chance to talk to younger folks to get a gauge on what they are thinking and where they see their careers heading. Plus, I welcome any opportunity to help the good folks of Detroit make Detroit the great city we all know it is. Huge thanks to Jessica Addison of LinkedIn for inviting me. Also, a shout out to LeGenevieve &ldquo;Vieve&rdquo; Squires of Starbucks for hosting us in Downtown Detroit.DevOpsDays NYC 2018 Ignite Talk on Golanghttps://chrisshort.net/devopsdays-nyc-2018-ignite-talk-on-golang/Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:35:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/devopsdays-nyc-2018-ignite-talk-on-golang/I had an amazing experience at DevOpsDays NYC 2018. The organizers put together an all-star lineup. You can tell this meant a lot to the organizers by the quality of the event itself; it was top notch. Being a part of the DevOps community is absolutely amazing. I am always thrilled to get invites to DevOpsDays events; they&rsquo;re so well done.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Clusterhttps://chrisshort.net/raspberry-pi-kubernetes-cluster/Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:35:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/raspberry-pi-kubernetes-cluster/For many months, I have wanted a Kubernetes cluster of my very own. One that I can tinker with, break, rebuild, and deploy services to. In the fall of 2017, I decided to stand up a three node cluster in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). It was nice and shiny and Googly but it wasn&rsquo;t cheap. Totaling almost $40/month to run I was envious of my friends who have virtually unlimited access to cloud compute.My New Home is SJ Technologieshttps://chrisshort.net/my-new-home-is-sj-technologies/Tue, 09 Jan 2018 08:45:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/my-new-home-is-sj-technologies/I am very happy to announce that I have a new job. I am now a Senior DevOps Advocate with the esteemed SJ Technologies, Inc. The great job search of 2017 actually ended in 2017. The good folks at SJ Technologies put together my offer letter in the last week of 2017. This allowed me to take a deep breath over the New Year&rsquo;s weekend and decompress. I am truly thankful to everyone for getting the offer together in what was likely your down time.What I Learned in 2017https://chrisshort.net/what-i-learned-in-2017/Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/what-i-learned-in-2017/A former co-worker and now friend used to have a tagline, &ldquo;Everyday is a school day.&rdquo; I remind myself of this fact nearly every time I learn something new. 2017 was arduous and mentally challenging. But, I did pull out some golden nuggets while reflecting back these past few weeks. I&rsquo;d like to share some things I picked up on on this most recent journey around the sun we call 2017.Newsletterhttps://chrisshort.net/newsletter/Mon, 01 Jan 2018 16:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/newsletter/DevOps&rsquo;ish is a weekly newsletter covering DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, and the &lsquo;ish in between by open source contributor, DevOps veteran, and CNCF Ambassador Chris Short.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.
Grateful to have readers from across the globe and companies such as Amazon Apple Chef Cisco Duke University Google Intel Microsoft Pivotal Red Hat Sonatype If you are looking for other DevOps related newsletters head over to DevOps Newsletters for a comprehensive list.Docker, Inc is Deadhttps://chrisshort.net/docker-inc-is-dead/Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:32:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/docker-inc-is-dead/DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this article are solely mine. They do not reflect the opinion of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (I&rsquo;m a CNCF Ambassador), nor Red Hat, nor that of any group I am affiliated with, sponsored by, or employed by.
Please read my Disclaimer before breaking out the tar and feathers.
To say that Docker had a very rough 2017 is an understatement. Aside from Uber, I can&rsquo;t think of a more utilized, hyped, and well funded Silicon Valley startup (still in operation) fumbling as bad as Docker did in 2017.Miscarriage: A Culture of Silence Helps No Onehttps://chrisshort.net/miscarriage-a-culture-of-silence-helps-no-one/Sat, 23 Dec 2017 10:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/miscarriage-a-culture-of-silence-helps-no-one/Julie and I have experienced a miscarriage. We found out we were pregnant in early November. On Thanksgiving, an episode occurred that demonstrated Julie&rsquo;s life might be in jeopardy as well as the life of the baby. There was a glimmer of hope that all could go well though; we had to give it time. A week before Christmas 2017, we learned that our second child wasn&rsquo;t going to make it.Notes on Running a Newsletter: A Year of DevOps'ishhttps://chrisshort.net/notes-on-running-a-newsletter-a-year-of-devopsish/Sat, 02 Dec 2017 10:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/notes-on-running-a-newsletter-a-year-of-devopsish/In late 2016, I set a goal to start and run a successful weekly newsletter. I decided that DevOps would be the topic. On December 11, 2016, DevOps&rsquo;ish was born. After fifty-two weeks of uninterrupted DevOps newsletters, I have some things to share about the experience.
The amount of effort writing a weekly newsletter for the past year has changed over time. As you write a newsletter the format evolves. As you get busier and busier the format self optimizes.Bookshttps://chrisshort.net/books/Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:50:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/books/If you&rsquo;d like to talk to me about writing for your upcoming project please send me a DM on Twitter (@ChrisShort) or e-mail. Thanks!
Ansible Automation for SysAdmins: A quickstart guide to Ansible The Ansible Automation for SysAdmins guide is a primer to help you get started using Ansible to give you a better understanding of the capabilities and show you how to automate everyday sysadmin tasks.Kubernetes: Getting Startedhttps://chrisshort.net/kubernetes-getting-started/Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:50:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/kubernetes-getting-started/Getting Started with Kubernetes sounds like quite a daunting feat. How do you get started with &ldquo;an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications&rdquo;? Let&rsquo;s examine Kubernetes&rsquo; beginning. Containers have been in use for a very long time in the Unix world. Linux containers are popular thanks to projects like Docker. Google created Process Containers in 2006 and later realized they needed a way to maintain all these containers.Video: All Things Open 2017https://chrisshort.net/video-all-things-open-2017/Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/video-all-things-open-2017/As previously mentioned, I spoke at All Things Open. Today, the good folks at opensource.com released video from the event. I really appreciate Nirmal Mehta taking the time to brainstorm the idea for this talk after DevOpsDays Raleigh 2017. I also am very thankful to Jason Hibbets and the opensource.com team as well as Todd Lewis and the All Things Open team for giving me the opportunity to speak at such an awesome event.Leaving Bankratehttps://chrisshort.net/leaving-bankrate/Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/leaving-bankrate/This is the e-mail I sent out this morning to Bankrate folks explaining my decision to leave the company. It&rsquo;s as much business related as it is personal. I&rsquo;m displaying it here because I believe in openness and transparency.
Fellow Bankraters,
Today, after serious consideration, I tendered my resignation as Manager of DevOps at Bankrate. There are a few reasons behind this decision that merit some explanation:
I have reached a point in my life where I can take a moment to figure out exactly what it is I want to be when I &ldquo;grow up.Causeshttps://chrisshort.net/causes/Fri, 27 Oct 2017 23:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/causes/There are many causes worth supporting out there. It&rsquo;s important that you help out organizations doing good in the world. At the very least, set up Amazon Smile to support your charity of choice. Here is a list of causes I support:
Electronic Frontier Foundation Website: eff.org
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development.All Things Open 2017: DevOps README.mdhttps://chrisshort.net/all-things-open-2017-devops-readme.md/Fri, 27 Oct 2017 22:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/all-things-open-2017-devops-readme.md/I had the opportunity to participate in All Things Open this week. It was quite an experience. 3300+ people who are all part of the open source software community all in one place is truly moving. Even better they let me take a mic on one of the main stages to give a modified version of my DevOps README.md talk. I can&rsquo;t thank the opensource.com crew enough for the opportunity.Video: DevOpsDays Raleigh 2017https://chrisshort.net/video-devopsdays-raleigh-2017/Wed, 11 Oct 2017 07:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/video-devopsdays-raleigh-2017/As previously mentioned, I spoke at DevOpsDays Raleigh. It was an awesome experience organizing and participating at the event! Videos from DevOpsDays Raleigh 2017 were recently released on YouTube. I wanted to take a moment to share the one&rsquo;s I was a subject in here.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.DevOpsDays Raleigh 2017: The Dark Side of DevOpshttps://chrisshort.net/devopsdays-raleigh-2017-the-dark-side-of-devops/Thu, 05 Oct 2017 07:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/devopsdays-raleigh-2017-the-dark-side-of-devops/I helped organize and spoke at DevOpsDays Raleigh 2017 back in September. From an organizers perspective the team was fantastic! If you ever have the opportunity to organize an event with any of the fine organizers in Raleigh you will be learning from true professionals.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.DevOps README.mdhttps://chrisshort.net/devops-readme.md/Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:45:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/devops-readme.md/After DevOpsDays Raleigh 2017 I was going to dinner with friends. Along the way the topic of what&rsquo;s up next came up. I mentioned I had a talk coming up at All Things Open but had no idea what I was going to discuss. We began batting ideas around and came up with a few good ones. One that we latched on to was creating a curated list of things to read to level up your DevOps skills and knowledge.Why I'm Not Ditching Cloudflarehttps://chrisshort.net/why-im-not-ditching-cloudflare/Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/why-im-not-ditching-cloudflare/ARPANET (the precursor to the internet) was built to connect scarce computing resources across the country to foster research and development. It&rsquo;s designers say that it was never designed to survive a nuclear attack rather, it was built to work around flaky network links of its era. The Internet of today is powered by the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing protocol. BGP is powerful as it shares information throughout myriad locations about how to send traffic from one part of the internet to another.Announcing Detroit Go Meetuphttps://chrisshort.net/announcing-detroit-go-meetup/Thu, 10 Aug 2017 17:10:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/announcing-detroit-go-meetup/While I was at GopherCon 2017, it became clear to me that there was no Go Meetup group in the Detroit Metro area. When I returned from Denver, after obtaining sponsorship from Bankrate, Detroit Go Meetup came to life.
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Immediately after launching, Steve Marsh reached out to me about helping co-organize the meetup.Chilling Effect of Google Manifestohttps://chrisshort.net/chilling-effect-of-google-manifesto/Sun, 06 Aug 2017 21:10:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/chilling-effect-of-google-manifesto/UPDATE: According to Kara Swisher at Recode, Google has fired James Damore, the author of the memo that is the topic of this article.
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On Friday, August 4, 2017, several Google employees took to Twitter to discuss a ten-page document that was circulating internally at an alarming rate.GopherCon 2017 Lightning Talk Videohttps://chrisshort.net/gophercon-2017-lightning-talk-video/Wed, 26 Jul 2017 23:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/gophercon-2017-lightning-talk-video/Video of all the GopherCon 2017 talks are now available. Fifty-eight videos in all; it&rsquo;s almost like being there. You can watch Ashley McNamara&rsquo;s goosebump inducing talk, Kris Nova&rsquo;s refreshing take on purging technical debt from kops, or Sam Boyer&rsquo;s dep talk.
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Introduction Chris Short
Manager of DevOps at Bankrate opensource.com and DZone Contributor Contributed to The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change DevOpsDays Speaker and Organizer DevOps&rsquo;ish chrisshort.net @ChrisShort Notes:The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Changehttps://chrisshort.net/the-open-organization-guide-to-it-culture-change/Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/the-open-organization-guide-to-it-culture-change/The open organization community at Opensource.com (of which I&rsquo;m a member) is pleased to announce the immediate release of its newest book, The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change.
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As IT teams around the world rise to these new challenges, they&rsquo;re realizing that radical change isn&rsquo;t a matter of tools alone.Breaking Encryption Won't Make Us Saferhttps://chrisshort.net/breaking-encryption-wont-make-us-safer/Mon, 05 Jun 2017 22:26:47 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/breaking-encryption-wont-make-us-safer/The British government wants to build backdoors into standard encryption libraries. This means the technology that protects your financial transactions could have a backdoor. These same backdoors were just exploited in the WannaCry outbreak that just took down the NHS. Who created that backdoor? The NSA, whose incompetence allowed this &ldquo;tool&rdquo; to fall into the hands of a Russian government-affiliated hacking group.
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Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.A Night of DevOps at Open Source South Carolinahttps://chrisshort.net/a-night-of-devops-at-open-source-south-carolina/Tue, 30 May 2017 22:46:35 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/a-night-of-devops-at-open-source-south-carolina/On Tuesday, May 23, 2017, I did a DevOps talk at Open Source South Carolina. The talk was a DevOps 101-styled deep dive into DevOps. Since the number one question I get when talking about DevOps, in general, is &ldquo;where do I start?&rdquo; I added my &ldquo;The Three Things&rdquo; to the already well known &ldquo;Three Ways&rdquo;. This provided both the holistic view while guiding people needed an extra nudge down the DevOps path."Good SysAdmin to DevOps Engineer in Six Months"https://chrisshort.net/good-sysadmin-to-devops-engineer-in-six-months/Thu, 11 May 2017 12:04:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/good-sysadmin-to-devops-engineer-in-six-months/The other day my Vice President asked me a question, &ldquo;What would it take to turn a good SysAdmin into a DevOps engineer?&rdquo; He followed it up with, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t spend more than ten minutes thinking about it.&rdquo; He was not disappointed when I told him the next day I am spending way more than ten minutes on answering the question. This is a hard question for me to answer. This is a question that you won&rsquo;t know if your answer is right for at least six months.The Dark Side of DevOpshttps://chrisshort.net/the-dark-side-of-devops/Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:02:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/the-dark-side-of-devops/Disclaimer: These are real world experiences I have had within organizations that I have been employed by. Identifying information is intentionally anonymous. If you think you are in one of these organizations please consider keeping that to yourself for the sake of others.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Why I'm Giving Up Content Blockershttps://chrisshort.net/why-im-giving-up-content-blockers/Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:02:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/why-im-giving-up-content-blockers/Since the release of Apple&rsquo;s iOS 9, iPhone and iPad owners are able to install content blockers. These content blockers are often referred to as ad blockers. Providing content blocking functionality through third party apps is a reasonable request. Apple has had this functionality in iOS since 16 September 2015. As a user of content blockers on the desktop, I jumped at the opportunity to install one on my mobile devices.Recent Accomplishmentshttps://chrisshort.net/recent-accomplishments/Fri, 03 Feb 2017 13:03:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/recent-accomplishments/I feel like I should say I don&rsquo;t like to toot my own horn. But, if I don&rsquo;t toot it who will? December and January were very busy months for me and February is definitely going to be busy. You should always be working outside your personal and professional comfort zones.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Find EC2 Instances That Are Missing Tagshttps://chrisshort.net/find-ec2-instances-that-are-missing-tags/Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:37:04 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/find-ec2-instances-that-are-missing-tags/The team here was trying to align AWS resources for billing by using Tags. Seems easy enough but we were having issues trying to figure out which EC2 instances were not tagged. We also wanted to find EC2 instances that are missing a ROLE tag. We searched high and low and found that several people needed a solution. We tried to cobble something together with the AWS CLI and then Ansible.GitLab Annoyance: Private to Public Reposhttps://chrisshort.net/gitlab-annoyance-private-to-public-repos/Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:03:02 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/gitlab-annoyance-private-to-public-repos/I was working on a new Ansible role last week and was having problems with Test Kitchen. The issue I was having was that Test Kitchen was unable to pull in dependencies from GitLab for the Ansible role I was developing. Here is the error message I was seeing:
[WARNING]: - rsyslog was NOT installed successfully: - command git clone https://gitlab.logicnow.com/ansible-roles/rsyslog.git rsyslog failed in directory /tmp/tmpEaRVAA (rc=128) Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Military Lessons Applied to DevOps: Operation Eagle Clawhttps://chrisshort.net/military-lessons-applied-to-devops-operation-eagle-claw/Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:05:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/military-lessons-applied-to-devops-operation-eagle-claw/As part of preparing for my talk at DevOpsDays Detroit, I did a significant amount of research into military failures. It was hard to find a military failure that did not evoke an emotional response or political discussion. But, I was prepared to talk about two: The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 Crash and the failed Iran hostage rescue, Operation Eagle Claw.
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Chances are you&rsquo;re in a terminal on a laptop on planet earth which is but one watery orb circling a star as it hurtles through the Milky Way which is but one of many galaxies moving across the universe. Try not to take things too seriously.Cookie Policyhttps://chrisshort.net/cookie-policy/Sun, 11 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/cookie-policy/This is the Cookie Policy for chrisshort.net, accessible from https://chrisshort.net
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What is Papertrail? A hosted log management tool that, in my opinion, can bridge the gap between your terminal and a full blown ELK stack.Triangle DevOps: What The Military Taught Me About DevOpshttps://chrisshort.net/triangle-devops-what-the-military-taught-me-about-devops/Fri, 02 Dec 2016 02:13:01 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/triangle-devops-what-the-military-taught-me-about-devops/I had the opportunity to present What The Military Taught Me About DevOps at the Triangle DevOps Meetup last night. It was a fantastic group of people and I fielded a lot of great feedback after speaking.
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One person asked if I would be willing to share my slides.DNS is Awesomehttps://chrisshort.net/drawings/dns-is-awesome/Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:04:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/drawings/dns-is-awesome/There are so many cool things about DNS one drawing is not going to do it justice. Please let this drawing serve as an inspiration to learn more about DNS.
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DNS is awesome because it allows you to have a full blown CDN for next to nothing.DIY Buffer using IFTTThttps://chrisshort.net/drawings/diy-buffer-using-ifttt/Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:03:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/drawings/diy-buffer-using-ifttt/Update: As of 2019-12-10, it would appear that due to rate limits and other service changes, this process is now broken. I leave this here in memory of the over three years of exemplary service IFTTT has given me.
Buffer is a great tool for scheduling and posting content to social media. But, it costs money to do any sort of real sharing. I prefer to share more content from others than I do my own.HTTP/2 Primerhttps://chrisshort.net/drawings/http2-primer/Wed, 16 Nov 2016 13:15:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/drawings/http2-primer/Hypertext Transport Protocol v2 (HTTP/2) is here and is being implemented at an ever quickening pace. HTTP/2 is going to speed up the web and enable new capabilities. There is a lot that stays the same but there are some significant changes coming. In educating myself I decided to illustrate some of the changes in HTTP/2:
The first thing to keep in mind is the primary reason for HTTP/2 even being a protocol is to improve performance (and not necessarily security).OSI Modelhttps://chrisshort.net/drawings/osi-model/Sun, 13 Nov 2016 18:37:06 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/drawings/osi-model/The Open Systems Interconnection model (OSI model) defines a concept where every function of a computing system resides at one of its seven levels. When people say, &ldquo;Layer 3 routing&rdquo; or &ldquo;L7 load balancing&rdquo; they are referring to the OSI Model.
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Photo Credit: Julia Evans
We had a saying when I was in the Air Force, &ldquo;Timing is everything.DevOps Perspectives from the Front Lineshttps://chrisshort.net/devops-perspectives-from-the-front-lines/Mon, 31 Oct 2016 12:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/devops-perspectives-from-the-front-lines/The month of October was quite unique for me. I went to a number of conferences and talked to tons of people from all walks of life. All of the events were great; DevOpsDays Raleigh, AnsibleFest Brooklyn, DevOpsDays Detroit, and All Things Open are all events I would recommend to anyone considering them.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.The Demise of Google Fiber and Internet Under Dirthttps://chrisshort.net/the-demise-of-google-fiber-and-internet-under-dirt/Sun, 30 Oct 2016 11:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/the-demise-of-google-fiber-and-internet-under-dirt/If you have not heard the news, Google Fiber is no longer expanding its installation in the 10 markets they service and the head of Google Access (the Google Fiber overlord company), Craig Barratt, is stepping down.
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Also in the news, was a little-publicized statement from AT&amp;T&rsquo;s chief executive, Randall Stephenson, where he said, &ldquo;I will be sorely disappointed if we are not going head-to-head&rdquo; with cable companies by 2021.What The Military Taught Me About DevOpshttps://chrisshort.net/what-the-military-taught-me-about-devops/Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/what-the-military-taught-me-about-devops/I was invited to speak at DevOpsDays Detroit 2016. I had a fantastic time speaking with the crowd in Detroit. This talk was my first foray into the talk world. I went long and could probably optimize the content of the slides (less words). However, I was very happy with the positive feedback and was blown away by how great the DevOpsDays volunteers and organizers.
Slides Photo: Bridget KromhoutAnsible Galaxy is Openhttps://chrisshort.net/ansible-galaxy-is-open/Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:45:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/ansible-galaxy-is-open/A quick note from AnsibleFest Brooklyn 2016. Ansible Galaxy is now open source and available at GitHub.com/ansible/galaxy. Congratulations to the Ansible team and Red Hat for open sourcing an important piece of the Ansible stack!
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Can I add my on-call rotation to my Google Calendar or Mac Calendar app? What number is going to call me in the middle of the night to wake me up? Subscribe to DevOps'ish!User Management with Ansiblehttps://chrisshort.net/user-management-with-ansible/Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:15:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/user-management-with-ansible/The contents of this article originally appeared on DZone
A few weeks ago, one of my DevOps counterparts was working on building out a new environment for one of our applications. This deployment included a new Puppet server (we are in an orchestration/configuration management state of flux) and my teammate was having some issues provisioning users (I did not ask why nor did I really care). My teammate asked if I could help with some Ansible knowledge.Notorious Remixeshttps://chrisshort.net/notorious-remixes/Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/notorious-remixes/The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie, Biggie Smalls, Big Poppa, The Black Frank White, The King of New York, however you refer to him, Christopher Wallace was one of the best rappers to ever walk planet earth. Since Biggie&rsquo;s death in 1997 his timeless lyrics have served as a foundation for many remixes and mashups. This is the definitive collection of the best studio quality Notorious B.I.G. remixes and mashups ever created.Ansible lineinfile be damnedhttps://chrisshort.net/ansible-lineinfile-be-damned/Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/ansible-lineinfile-be-damned/The Ansible lineinfile module is designed to search a file for a line, and ensure that it is present or absent. lineinfile is very effective at that particular task. However, when the line has to be in a certain place or before or after a certain line, lineinfile becomes a hassle to manage.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.North Carolina Veterans Oral History Interview Part 3https://chrisshort.net/nc-veterans-oral-history-program/nc-vets-oral-history-interview-3/Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:17:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/nc-veterans-oral-history-program/nc-vets-oral-history-interview-3/As part of a North Carolina State Archives initiative to obtain oral histories of veterans I volunteered to be interviewed for the North Carolina Veterans Oral History Collection. I was interviewed by Matthew Peek, Military Collection Archivist for the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (later referred to as MP).
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.North Carolina Veterans Oral History Interview Part 2https://chrisshort.net/nc-veterans-oral-history-program/nc-vets-oral-history-interview-2/Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/nc-veterans-oral-history-program/nc-vets-oral-history-interview-2/As part of a North Carolina State Archives initiative to obtain oral histories of veterans I volunteered to be interviewed for the North Carolina Veterans Oral History Collection. I was interviewed by Matthew Peek, Military Collection Archivist for the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (later referred to as MP).
The interview was well worth the time it took to coordinate and conduct it. I would encourage all North Carolina veterans to contact Matthew and provide their unique story for preservation.North Carolina Veterans Oral History Interview Part 1https://chrisshort.net/nc-veterans-oral-history-program/nc-vets-oral-history-interview-1/Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:05:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/nc-veterans-oral-history-program/nc-vets-oral-history-interview-1/As part of a North Carolina State Archives initiative to obtain oral histories of veterans I volunteered to be interviewed for the North Carolina Veterans Oral History Collection. I was interviewed by Matthew Peek, Military Collection Archivist for the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (later referred to as MP).
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Technical Debt and the Ongoing Battle Against Ithttps://chrisshort.net/technical-debt-and-the-ongoing-battle-against-it/Tue, 09 Aug 2016 18:13:30 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/technical-debt-and-the-ongoing-battle-against-it/I have been trying to fit a lot of square pegs into round holes lately. Eliminating technical debt with modern day DevOps practices to reduce costs is seldom fun or glamorous but is very often beneficial. Reducing costs should be the mindset of IT and one surefire way to do that is to spend the right amount of time on a task to complete it successfully. Finding that balance is definitely tricky especially when a lot of us are human time division multiplexers now.What Does Yahoo's Downfall Teach Us?https://chrisshort.net/what-does-yahoos-downfall-teach-us/Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:06:31 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/what-does-yahoos-downfall-teach-us/If you have not heard, Verizon announced they are going to acquire Yahoo. This ends a very long, drawn out bidding process in what has been the very long death of Yahoo. Yahoo, the brand, probably will not disappear in this deal (much like how AOL is still a brand after its acquisition by Verizon). AOL and Yahoo have benefitted greatly from their once high times. AOL&rsquo;s story is well known (technological advances eroding their user base).FBI Issues Notice Regarding Pokemon GOhttps://chrisshort.net/fbi-issues-notice-regarding-pokemon-go/Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:34:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/fbi-issues-notice-regarding-pokemon-go/On July 15, 2016 the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) issued an External Intelligence Note regarding the recent smash hit augmented reality mobile game Pokémon GO. The Note&rsquo;s classification was unclassified/for official use only with the intended audience being the law enforcement and security communities. The completely unclassified summary of the FBI External Intelligence Note states:
The FBI&rsquo;s Washington Field Office (WFO) assesses it is very likely a increased participation in the Pokémon GO augmented-reality smartphone application will result in an increase in law enforcement encounters and suspicious activity reports (SARs) in the National Capital Region (NCR) due to a high concentration of museums, art installations, historical markers, and monuments identified as target locations, or &ldquo;PokéStops,&rdquo; and players attempting to access restricted areas.Weather in your iOS and macOS Calendarshttps://chrisshort.net/weather-in-your-ios-and-macos-calendars/Sun, 10 Jul 2016 20:51:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/weather-in-your-ios-and-macos-calendars/One of the things I like best about Google Calendar is its extensibility. You can add calendars for virtually everything; sports, holidays, shared calendars, and weather. For managing personal appointments and family events I use Google Calendar as the backend but I prefer the native experience of macOS and iOS Calendar.app.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Take Ownership; "Plant Your Flag"https://chrisshort.net/take-ownership-plant-your-flag/Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:11:49 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/take-ownership-plant-your-flag/Taking ownership or &ldquo;planting your flag&rdquo; in an idea, work, or concept is often one of the best things someone can do. To sit in a room full of people and say, &ldquo;This is mine. I will take care of it.&rdquo; Makes everyone in the room know you are the point person committed to making it happen. The same holds true when discussing documentation, processes, and ideas for long-range planning.Permanently Remove Any Record of a File From githttps://chrisshort.net/permanently-remove-any-record-of-a-file-from-git/Sat, 25 Jun 2016 17:06:05 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/permanently-remove-any-record-of-a-file-from-git/A co-worker and I needed to remove all instances of a binary blob from one of our git repos a while back. This was a lot harder than I thought it should have been, in my opinion. However, distributed version control is not really designed to easily allow folks to delete every instance of a file. But, if you ever run into a case where you do need to expunge a file in git here is how we did it.Understanding, Fear, and Hatehttps://chrisshort.net/understanding-fear-and-hate/Tue, 21 Jun 2016 05:44:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/understanding-fear-and-hate/&ldquo;Fear leads to anger&hellip; Anger leads to hate&hellip; Hate leads to suffering.&rdquo; Jedi Master Yoda
On Saturday, my wife Julie, son Max, and I attended church. This was a very special mass as it was the mass at which Max was being baptized. Julie&rsquo;s family was present as were friends of ours. As a lot of my friends know, I&rsquo;m not religious. My stance on religion is that I choose complete freedom over being beholden to humans interpreting what they believe to be the word of God.Low Cost Content Delivery Network (CDN)https://chrisshort.net/low-cost-content-delivery-network-cdn/Tue, 14 Jun 2016 17:18:30 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/low-cost-content-delivery-network-cdn/A content delivery network (CDN) provides a service that enables public facing, web based responsive access to said resources in an effort to maintain a good user experience across the planet. A CDN provides a localized cache (copy) of your web site and its content closer to end users. CDNs leverage local data centers closer to end users and a little DNS magic to make this work. CDNs help their customers have a significantly smaller infrastructure footprint while maintaining fast load time for services provided.Microsoft Remote Desktop for Machttps://chrisshort.net/microsoft-remote-desktop-for-mac/Thu, 09 Jun 2016 22:24:02 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/microsoft-remote-desktop-for-mac/On June 1, 2016, Microsoft released an update to it&rsquo;s Remote Desktop client for Mac OS X via the Mac App Store. The update to version 8.0.32 broke some functionality for people. The most commonly reported error I have seen is &ldquo;Connection reset to peer&rdquo; before authentication.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.My Mac OS X Setup Guidehttps://chrisshort.net/my-mac-os-x-setup-guide/Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:58:34 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/my-mac-os-x-setup-guide/I happen to be someone that finds themselves setting up new systems for myself often. I have to remind myself there are tools that I need installed before the scenario in which I need to use them (on an airplane, during a crisis, etc.). I use a Mac so this list of software and setup is going to be very Mac OS X centric.
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The differences are relatively subtle between BSD sed and GNU sed. However, most of my work is done through iTerm (a literal black box).The Hall of Famer and Ihttps://chrisshort.net/the-hall-of-famer-and-i/Fri, 27 May 2016 23:16:56 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/the-hall-of-famer-and-i/I try to keep the content tech related around here but some times an event triggers a fond memory in your past and you feel the need to write about it. In January 2010, I was in the Air Force and had the opportunity to get up earlier in the morning than normal to get on a bus and drive over to Welcome, North Carolina. For those of you that are not familiar with NASCAR, Welcome, NC is the home of Richard Childress Racing.Poorly Documented Dependencieshttps://chrisshort.net/poorly-documented-dependencies/Mon, 23 May 2016 21:44:50 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/poorly-documented-dependencies/Few things irritate me more than poorly documented dependencies. If your tool or software documentation states you can install your widget with one command and it does not work you are probably annoying people.
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Consider this a running list of tools and their often not well documented dependency chains.Interviewshttps://chrisshort.net/interviews/Sat, 21 May 2016 22:41:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/interviews/If you'd like to discuss having me speak at your conference, Meetup, podcast, webinar, etc. please send me a message. Thanks!
Migrating applications to containers and Kubernetes: 5 best practices Date: 2020-03-04
Source: Migrating applications to containers and Kubernetes: 5 best practices | The Enterprisers Project
Let’s examine key considerations for migrating existing applications to containers and Kubernetes, according to experts
7 best practices: Building applications for containers and Kubernetes Date: 2020-03-02Tangible Intangibles: Questions to Ask While Being Interviewedhttps://chrisshort.net/tangible-intangibles-questions-to-ask-while-being-interviewed/Tue, 10 May 2016 17:05:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/tangible-intangibles-questions-to-ask-while-being-interviewed/A few weeks ago a co-worker and I were discussing some things we really enjoyed about our work environment. It reminded me of a few key questions I ask (or things that I look for) during an interview that typically indicate whether or not a job is going to be a good fit or not.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Abouthttps://chrisshort.net/about/Sun, 17 Apr 2016 18:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/about/Tagline Kubernetes at Red Hat | Writes DevOps&rsquo;ish &amp; KubeWeekly | CNCF Ambassador | Disabled Veteran | He/Him/His | Views are solely mine
Brief Bio Chris Short has been a proponent of open source solutions throughout his over two decades in various IT disciplines including systems, security, networks, and DevOps engineering and advocacy across the public and private sectors. He currently works at Red Hat. Chris is a disabled US Air Force veteran living with his wife and son in Greater Metro Detroit.Got Badlock? Ansible Can Helphttps://chrisshort.net/got-badlock-ansible-can-help/Tue, 12 Apr 2016 04:57:53 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/got-badlock-ansible-can-help/Badlock might not be bad for all. If you are using Ansible you can patch your systems with a single playbook (or ad hoc command).
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For RPM based OS users Badlock (samba) patching is as easy as: ansible -m shell -a &quot;yum update *samba*&quot; allYubikey 4 Nano Demands Use of yubiswitchhttps://chrisshort.net/yubikey-4-nano-demands-use-of-yubiswitch/Sat, 27 Feb 2016 18:40:10 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/yubikey-4-nano-demands-use-of-yubiswitch/As more and more security policies demand the use of multi-factor authentication the number of times a day you use a multi-factor token will increase. Hopefully that number will not increase to a level that throws the balance of security and convenience towards the annoyingly secure side of the scale. But, if that ever does happen hopefully you can use an Yubikey as your token.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Using Ansible Vault Effectivelyhttps://chrisshort.net/using-ansible-vault-effectively/Sat, 17 Oct 2015 07:53:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/using-ansible-vault-effectively/Ansible is a great orchestration tool. The low barrier to entry and simplicity of Ansible are why so many people that start using it love it. But there is one feature in Ansible that probably should be used more often. That feature is Ansible Vault.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Disabling Mac OS X El Capitan System Integrity Protectionhttps://chrisshort.net/disabling-mac-os-x-el-capitan-system-integrity-protection/Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:22:32 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/disabling-mac-os-x-el-capitan-system-integrity-protection/Apple has introduced a new security feature in Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11) called System Integrity Protection (sometimes referred to as rootless).
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What is System Integrity Protection? According to Apple&rsquo;s documentation:LastPass Sells Out to LogMeInhttps://chrisshort.net/lastpass-sells-out-to-logmein/Fri, 09 Oct 2015 23:03:30 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/lastpass-sells-out-to-logmein/If you have not heard, the phenomenal cloud base SaaS password manager, LastPass has agreed to be acquired be the not so customer friendly LogMeIn. The IT world immediately panned the anti-idea as anti-consumer and the security world agreed and raised all sorts of red flags as well.
People dislike LogMeIn for a variety of reasons but the main one is that they pulled the rugs out from under a lot of folks who were using LogMeIn to help administer remote computers (I was one of these people).PHP Memory Directives Relationshiphttps://chrisshort.net/drawings/php-memory-relationships/Fri, 09 Oct 2015 17:00:52 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/drawings/php-memory-relationships/I recently had to templatize PHP configurations using Ansible and Jinja2. I had to do some research to ensure that the memory directives that were being defined were actually valid. The three directives I was tinkering with were:
memory_limit upload_max_filesize post_max_size Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Mac OS X El Capitan and Junos Pulsehttps://chrisshort.net/mac-os-x-el-capitan-and-junos-pulse/Tue, 06 Oct 2015 20:54:19 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/mac-os-x-el-capitan-and-junos-pulse/I had some Apple Keychain issues after upgrading to Mac OS X El Capitan yesterday. Apple provided a reasonable resolution (blow away the login Apple Keychain and re-create it). As it turns out, my issues weren&rsquo;t limited to just the El Capitan upgrade. The Juniper Networks&rsquo; VPN client, Junos Pulse, has some pretty awful issues.
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She won&rsquo;t have to remember passwords.Mac OS X El Capitan: Keychain Issueshttps://chrisshort.net/mac-os-x-el-capitan-keychain-issues/Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:42:04 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/mac-os-x-el-capitan-keychain-issues/I started having some Apple Keychain issues after upgrading to Mac OS X El Capitan. At random, I would be asked to sign back into accounts that I am logged into through Internet Accounts in System Preferences.
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I thought it a minor issue but it became unavoidable though once El Capitan told me it couldn&rsquo;t find my login Apple Keychain after logging in:An Annoying MySQL Replication Error Code: 1045https://chrisshort.net/an-annoying-mysql-replication-error-code-1045/Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:53:18 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/an-annoying-mysql-replication-error-code-1045/I was fixing MySQL replication on a slave this past week. Everything seemed to be ready to go after bringing data over from the master manually. I went to connect the slave to the master and nothing happened. Whaaaaaa?
Last_IO_Errno: 1045 Last_IO_Error: error connecting to master &#39;repl@blah.local:3306&#39; - retry-time: 60 retries: 86400
Let me look up MySQL error code 1045:
Error: 1045 SQLSTATE: 28000 (ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR) Message: Access denied for user &#39;%s&#39;@&#39;%s&#39; (using password: %s) That&rsquo;s not helpful.Long Thoracic Nerve Palsyhttps://chrisshort.net/long-thoracic-nerve-palsy/Sat, 03 Oct 2015 09:57:51 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/long-thoracic-nerve-palsy/I&rsquo;m Chris Short and I have Long Thoracic Nerve (LTN) Palsy with Winging of the Scapula. On October 12, 2003, during a military hurricane evacuation exercise at Avon Park Air Force Range, I managed to permanently damage my LTN leading to winging of my right scapula.
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ls -1 | while read N ; do echo -n $N: ; ansible-vault --vault-password-file ~/.ansible_vault view $N | grep &lt;STRING&gt; ; done Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Tim Tebow seen working out on a USC baseball fieldhttps://chrisshort.net/tim-tebow-seen-working-out-on-a-usc-baseball-field/Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/tim-tebow-seen-working-out-on-a-usc-baseball-field/Tim Tebow was observed working out on a USC baseball field recently. Tebow&rsquo;s throwing motion looks a little bit better but his agents are likely pressuring him to become a public speaker according to Only GatorsTiny Tiny RSS: Loathe the Asshole Devshttps://chrisshort.net/tiny-tiny-rss-loathe-the-asshole-devs/Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/tiny-tiny-rss-loathe-the-asshole-devs/I&rsquo;ve been messing around with Tiny Tiny RSS today. Upon discovering it I posted in their Google+ Community asking how other users implemented it and what they thought of a specific use case I had. I got some good responses and was quite appreciative of them.
I opted, at the advice of those in the community, to setup Tiny Tiny RSS on RedHat&rsquo;s OpenShift and was pleasantly surprised by how the product RedHat created.Install VirtualBox Guest Additions via Command Linehttps://chrisshort.net/install-virtualbox-guest-additions-via-command-line/Fri, 03 May 2013 18:18:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/install-virtualbox-guest-additions-via-command-line/I routinely spin up CentOS virtual machines in VirtualBox. Sometimes they are temporary and others might be around for months. These seemingly throw away VMs utilize the CentOS minimal install ISO for speed of setup (I really should just build a standard starting point VM and clone it as needed but I digress).
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Why I Dumped Spotify Premiumhttps://chrisshort.net/why-i-dumped-spotify-premium/Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:06:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/why-i-dumped-spotify-premium/Yesterday I was reading an article by Steve Kovach about Spotify and its six month free (ad supported) listening period coming to an end. There seemed to be quite a bit of buzz about this ploy to lure US users in my Flipboard too. I have to admit, I was a huge proponent of Spotify but more importantly I was a huge supporter of streaming music.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.The Story of Julie and Chris' Engagementhttps://chrisshort.net/the-story-of-julie-and-chris-engagement/Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/the-story-of-julie-and-chris-engagement/Julie and I have been passholders to Biltmore since Labor Day weekend 2010. The Biltmore Estate is a very special place for us because it seems every time we visit we somehow manage to fall deeper in love with each other. I had decided several months prior that when the time was right I would propose to Julie somewhere on the Biltmore Estate.
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Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Chris Short's Sausage Potato Souphttps://chrisshort.net/chris-shorts-sausage-potato-soup/Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/chris-shorts-sausage-potato-soup/Ingredients 1 lb. Jimmy Dean Sage Pork Sausage * 1 bag Potatoes O&rsquo;Brien (bag size depends on how much potato you want) 1 Onion, diced 3-5 Cloves of Garlic 1 can of Chicken Broth 2 cups of Water 1 can of Campbell&rsquo;s Cream of Chicken Soup 1 can of Campbell&rsquo;s Cream of Celery Soup 2-3 cups of Milk (depending on how much soup you want) Cheddar Cheese (for garnish)Ear Piercing Analysis: Average Age and Additional Datahttps://chrisshort.net/ear-piercing-analysis-average-age-and-additional-data/Tue, 26 May 2009 20:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/ear-piercing-analysis-average-age-and-additional-data/My daughter, Aubree, laid into me hard today about getting her ears pierced. Aubree, her mother and I had a fairly long conversation about it this afternoon. Which ended with me having to consider it; not think about it but, honestly consider it.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Will Klinehttps://chrisshort.net/will-kline/Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/will-kline/A tragedy has happened here in Denver; a good friend, co-worker, and fellow Airman has passed away. In a nutshell, it was a sudden and tragic end to a life that was way too short and full of people he touched. The emotions that flow through those that he touched after they heard the news are shock, numbness, sadness, anger… And I really haven&rsquo;t figured out what is going to come after that.Interview with Gina Elise of Pin Ups for Vetshttps://chrisshort.net/interview-with-gina-elise-of-pin-ups-for-vets/Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:29:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/interview-with-gina-elise-of-pin-ups-for-vets/If you&rsquo;ve never heard of Gina Elise and her project Pin Ups for Vets prepare to become very informed and amazed. Gina Elise is a 24-year-old who majored in theater at UCLA. It&rsquo;s not often that someone of Gina&rsquo;s age gets interested in helping people. It&rsquo;s even less often that someone from the state of California actively supports veterans and our troops like she does. Gina Elise is not your ordinary California girl, college graduate and with her Pin Ups for Vets calendars, specifically designed for troops and veterans, she is supporting the troops overseas, downrange, and veterans recovering here at home.Windows Vista: Upgrading Seems Like a Really Bad Ideahttps://chrisshort.net/windows-vista-upgrading-seems-like-a-really-bad-idea/Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:14:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/windows-vista-upgrading-seems-like-a-really-bad-idea/I&rsquo;ve come to the conclusion that upgrading to Windows Vista would be a horrible decision; allow me to explain why.
Cost: The main reason behind doing or not doing most things with PCs is cost. An upgrade to Windows Vista Ultimate will set you back $200 or more dollars. But that&rsquo;s just the start! Chances are the hardware that runs at speed or soars with Windows XP will run dreadfully slow with Windows Vista.Google Building New Datacenter in Lenoir, NChttps://chrisshort.net/google-building-new-datacenter-in-lenoir-nc/Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/google-building-new-datacenter-in-lenoir-nc/Good news for the Unifour area of North Carolina (where I lived three years of my early adult life), Google is building a 210 job, $600 million dollar datacenter to help bolster its online offerings.
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Google Taps North Carolina for New Datacenter Site (E-Commerce Times):IE Unsecure for Over 9 Months in 2006, Firefox, Nine Dayshttps://chrisshort.net/ie-unsecure-for-over-9-months-in-2006-firefox-nine-days/Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:26:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/ie-unsecure-for-over-9-months-in-2006-firefox-nine-days/Most of us probably knew this already but Internet Explorer (IE) is one of the most unsecured browsers on the planet. Last year alone, it was unsecure for 284 according to a Washington Post article by Brian Krebs.
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Washington Post: &ldquo;Internet Explorer unsafe for 284 days in 2006&rdquo; (Ars Technica)Another Center for Purposeful Living Recruit Savedhttps://chrisshort.net/foundation-for-purposeful-living/another-center-for-purposeful-living-recruit-saved/Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/foundation-for-purposeful-living/another-center-for-purposeful-living-recruit-saved/Yesterday, I had an incredibly healthy exchange with a divorced mother who had toured the Center for Purposeful Living and decided it might be worth her time. She even enlisted to join the Center for Purposeful Living after her tour.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.A Brief History of Center for Purposeful Living by John David Shorthttps://chrisshort.net/foundation-for-purposeful-living/a-brief-history-of-center-for-purposeful-living-by-john-david-short/Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/foundation-for-purposeful-living/a-brief-history-of-center-for-purposeful-living-by-john-david-short/Last week my brother, John David Short, and I had a conversation about all the statements and articles that have been written about the Center for Purposeful Living (formally known as Human Service Alliance). In that conversation he told me that he&rsquo;d be willing to write about Human Service Alliance (what it was aptly named while he and I were involved in it). He sent me a very well written article that is just too good not to add to the mountain of information forming in regards to the Center for Purposeful Living.3C2X1: Communications - Computer Systems Controllerhttps://chrisshort.net/3c2x1-tech-control/Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:33:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/3c2x1-tech-control/3C2X1 Specialty Summary Monitors and controls performance of networks and communications-computer systems (C-CS). Coordinates their configuration, operation, restoration, and service improvements. Analyzes their capabilities and performance, identifies problems, and takes corrective action. Directs and makes operational adjustments to C-CS equipment.
A skill level replaces the &ldquo;X&rdquo; in 3C2X1. Skill levels should be viewed as one&rsquo;s ability or aptitude to perform their job. Air Force wide skill levels are 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9.The Teachings of Derwyn Lackeyhttps://chrisshort.net/foundation-for-purposeful-living/the-teachings-of-derwyn-lackey/Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/foundation-for-purposeful-living/the-teachings-of-derwyn-lackey/I&rsquo;ve told you about the cult known as the Center for Purposeful Living, another person has shared their experiences with the Center for Purposeful Living, and now another individual has come out denouncing the Center for Purposeful Living which is also known as Human Service Alliance.
The following was originally posted on the FACTNet thread dedicated to Human Service Alliance and the Center for Purposeful Living by someone referring to themselves as marcusrevelus and is being republished here because it is so incredibly powerful and remarkably true:The Center for Purposeful Living is a Cult: Don't Take My Word For Ithttps://chrisshort.net/foundation-for-purposeful-living/the-center-for-purposeful-living-is-a-cult-dont-take-my-word-for-it-2/Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/foundation-for-purposeful-living/the-center-for-purposeful-living-is-a-cult-dont-take-my-word-for-it-2/It&rsquo;s obvious I&rsquo;m not the only one that believes Human Service Alliance, University for Human Goodness, Center for Purposeful Living, or whatever they are calling themselves this week is a cult. That fact is apparent to many not engulfed in the organization including those that have had some limited experience with the cult. A few nights ago I had an exchange of e-mails with someone who wishes to remain anonymous (so for the sake of this article we&rsquo;ll call them Quincy).The Cult that is Human Service Alliance and the Center for Purposeful Livinghttps://chrisshort.net/foundation-for-purposeful-living/the-cult-that-is-human-service-alliance-and-the-center-for-purposeful-living/Fri, 08 Jul 2005 20:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/foundation-for-purposeful-living/the-cult-that-is-human-service-alliance-and-the-center-for-purposeful-living/Allow me to take a moment to inform you about a dark part of my past that I have kept from quite a few people; while I was a child I was an unwilling member of a cult known then as Human Service Alliance and after quite a few name changes (to include the University for Human Goodness) it is now known as the Center for Purposeful Living. I was young and when you&rsquo;re in an environment like that you don&rsquo;t know any better regardless of your age.Shoulder Update 2005-05-19https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2005-05-19/Thu, 19 May 2005 13:38:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2005-05-19/I had my &ldquo;procedure&rdquo; done on my shoulder this morning. Everything went fine. I was asleep and woke up and mobile so that is a good thing. However, I still feel like I&rsquo;m having an out of body experience at the moment.
The good news is that the pain I had this morning is pretty much gone.Shoulder Update 2005-03-15https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2005-03-15/Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:18:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2005-03-15/When I first started writing this article I decided to write about how bad the military health care system is and what a farce TRICARE (the military&rsquo;s HMO) is. However, I think that&rsquo;s not in the best interests of myself or this web site so I&rsquo;ll provide an update on my shoulder (back, ribs, spine) injury. But, please allow me to say that you get what you pay for and, in the military, you don&rsquo;t pay for health care.Shoulder Update 2005-02-22https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2005-02-22/Tue, 22 Feb 2005 05:10:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2005-02-22/Costovertebral Dysfunction of Rib T-8. That&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s wrong with my shoulder. After a year and a half of worthless medical treatment the military doctors have finally figured out what&rsquo;s wrong. There is a rib bulging out from my spine just below my shoulder blade. This is what is pushing back against the muscles in my shoulder thus making my shoulder hurt.
Last Tuesday, a physical therapist folded me up like a lawn chair trying to discover the cause of my pain.Windows XP and Big Hard Driveshttps://chrisshort.net/windows-xp-and-big-hard-drives/Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:16:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/windows-xp-and-big-hard-drives/After having issues with a Western Digital 200 GB hard drive and Windows XP I thought it would be beneficial to put my notes into some sort of guide for other people that might have a problem with Windows and drives that are bigger than 137 GB (128 GB binary).
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/ The root directory (not to be concerned with the root account) is similar to a drive letter in Windows (C:\, D:\, etc.Firefox Hits the NY Timeshttps://chrisshort.net/firefox-hits-the-ny-times/Fri, 17 Dec 2004 06:06:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/firefox-hits-the-ny-times/Firefox has taken out a two-page ad in the New York Times! According to Firefox this is the, &ldquo;largest open source fundraising campaign in history&rdquo; and, &ldquo;these folks were willing to put their name out there and be the first to publicly support Firefox and our community at a scale never before attempted in open source history.&rdquo;
Somewhere in that massive list of names is mine. I will be picking up a New York Times some time today to see how good this Firefox ad looks on two full pages.VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com and .nethttps://chrisshort.net/verisigns-rapid-dns-updates-in-.com-and-.net/Sat, 06 Nov 2004 22:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/verisigns-rapid-dns-updates-in-.com-and-.net/SlashDot is running a story saying that the twice a day DNS updates of .com and .net domains will cease to exist; VeriSign Naming and Directory Services will be switching to a near real-time system on September 8, 2004.
From the announcement:
After the rapid DNS update is implemented, the elapsed time from registrars&rsquo; add or change operations to the visibility of those adds or changes in all 13 .T-Mobile Sidekick II Reviewhttps://chrisshort.net/t-mobile-sidekick-ii-review/Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/t-mobile-sidekick-ii-review/This is a comprehensive review of the T-Mobile Sidekick II. I wanted to push this review out a lot quicker but I figured that a thorough testing and experience with the Sidekick II was necessary. After spending a year with the original color Sidekick I think I&rsquo;ll be able to write up a very good review.
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Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.My HP Pavilion zv5260us Laptophttps://chrisshort.net/my-hp-pavilion-zv5260us-laptop/Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/my-hp-pavilion-zv5260us-laptop/I finally did it. I bought a laptop before I headed out to California. Not so much for the trip to California but for another PC in the house and some more horsepower (a lot more horsepower). I&rsquo;m not a gamer but I can always use a powerful processor.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Shoulder Update 2004-06-25https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2004-06-25/Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2004-06-25/The Electromyography (EMG) and Nerve Conduction Study yesterday was a somewhat painful experience but it proved that I don&rsquo;t have any permanent nerve damage.
I have to wait until after the 4th to talk to my doctor (he&rsquo;s on leave and no one else picked up for him). I did talk to my doctor&rsquo;s technician and she assured me that my doctor will contact me on the 6th.Shoulder Update 2004-06-14https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2004-06-14/Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:38:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2004-06-14/TRICARE actually did me some good today and called me while I was on my way home and set me up with a neurologist.
The neurologist will be doing an Electromyography (EMG) and Nerve Conduction Study.
The appointment is set for the 24th. As usual I will keep you all updated.Shoulder Update 2004-06-10https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2004-06-10/Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:26:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2004-06-10/Well&hellip; I just got done with my follow-up to my MRI. I&rsquo;m very distraught about the entire thing because (even though I wasn&rsquo;t told this) no one in this hospital has ever seen my MRI. I know this because a SrA was scrambling around trying to find my MRI or at least get some kind of information about them (which included me giving the phone number of the MRI place).Shoulder Update 2004-05-04https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2004-05-04/Tue, 04 May 2004 14:26:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2004-05-04/I had my orthopedics appointment for my shoulder today. It went okay I guess. I told the doc I was tired of the pain and the runaround he understood then said that there might be a problem with my neck (more runaround).
However, he did schedule me for an MRI. So when I get a date for that I will let everyone know.Shoulder Update 2004-04-28https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2004-04-28/Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:25:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2004-04-28/8:56 AM ET I woke up this morning at 0230 experiencing the worst pain I&rsquo;ve ever felt in my shoulder. I took my medication which didn&rsquo;t really help and sat in front of the computer until it was time to go to work.
At this moment I&rsquo;m in the hospital waiting to be seen. Something has to get done and it has to get done today.
I do have an appointment for the 25th with orthopedics but I can&rsquo;t take this kind of pain for another month.Shoulder Update 2004-03-27https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2004-03-27/Sat, 27 Mar 2004 19:42:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/shoulder-update-2004-03-27/The cortizone shot worked for a good two weeks but it has all but worn off now.
The pain persists and it is truly painful. The medication they have given me works but I can only take it once a day so there is a good 10 to 12 hours a day it hurts depending on what&rsquo;s going on.
I&rsquo;ve got a follow up appointment in Orthopedics but I&rsquo;m going to have to either get it moved up or postponed due to mission requirements.orkut.com - Google's Social Networkhttps://chrisshort.net/orkut.com-googles-social-network/Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/orkut.com-googles-social-network/orkut.com is a social networking service developed in association with Google. Why the name Orkut? Orkut Büyükkökten, a Google employee that has a significant interest in social networking, developed the service. How did Mr. Orkut have time to develop such a project? Google has a creativity policy of sorts that encourages its employees to use 20% of their time for personal interests.
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It appears that this will be a long, drawn out process. You gotta love HMOs.Microsoft and the Death of the Internethttps://chrisshort.net/microsoft-and-the-death-of-the-internet/Thu, 09 Oct 2003 02:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/microsoft-and-the-death-of-the-internet/Microsoft and its products and services are slowly destroying the Internet or at the very least changing the dynamics of the Internet. There are three main reasons for this rift in the Internet. The first reason is Microsoft&rsquo;s standards. The second reason is the popularity of Microsoft software. The final reason is the security (or lack thereof) of Microsoft software. When you combine these three reasons together you get a potential Internet killer.Moving to Linux - Linux Hopes Dashedhttps://chrisshort.net/moving-to-linux-linux-hopes-dashed/Sun, 28 Sep 2003 02:12:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/moving-to-linux-linux-hopes-dashed/This will be the final article in the &ldquo;Moving to Linux&rdquo; series.
The Moving to Linux plan had been going along as it should. My Western Digital 200 GB hard drive arrived and I was ready and waiting with a freshly burned copy of Red Hat 9. All the research I had previously done indicated that there shouldn&rsquo;t be any major issues because of all the key components in my computer being compatible with Linux.Blogs Explainedhttps://chrisshort.net/blogs-explained/Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/blogs-explained/What is a blog? Blog is short for weblog. Blogger.com defines a blog/weblog as, &ldquo;a web page made up of usually short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically - like a what&rsquo;s new page or a journal. The content and purposes of blogs varies greatly - from links and commentary about other web sites, to news about a company/person/idea, to diaries, photos, poetry, mini-essays, project updates, even fiction.&rdquo;
Subscribe to DevOps'ish!Linux and Ease of Usehttps://chrisshort.net/linux-and-ease-of-use/Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/linux-and-ease-of-use/When I got the idea to write this article I decided to do some searching and see what other people were saying about ease of use in Linux. I found the results of my searches to be less than fruitful, see for your self:
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=linux+ease+of+use http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+ease+of+use
What came up were a few useful writings but nothing significant in terms of Linux ease of use. It has been said that 2003 will be the year of Linux on the desktop so why isn&rsquo;t there more information out there about Linux ease of use?Content is Kinghttps://chrisshort.net/content-is-king/Sun, 08 Jun 2003 16:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/content-is-king/Let&rsquo;s face it, information rules the Information Superhighway we call the Internet. If it weren&rsquo;t for worthwhile information, formulated opinions, and reviews the Internet would not be as popular as it is today. For all intensive purposes in terms of web site design, search engine optimization, and search engine promotion, information is the equivalent to content. There is good content and then there is bad content. Bad content, in my opinion, is content that serves no purpose, has no goal, and doesn&rsquo;t inform anyone reading it about any general or specific topic.Moving to Linux - Filesystemshttps://chrisshort.net/moving-to-linux-filesystems/Thu, 15 May 2003 01:41:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/moving-to-linux-filesystems/After deciding how my hard disk will be partitioned in Linux, I need to select a filesystem for those partitions. A filesystem is a system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. In layman&rsquo;s terms it is code that tells your operating system how data is stored, organized, and managed on a hard disk drive.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Moving to Linux - Partitioninghttps://chrisshort.net/moving-to-linux-partitioning/Sun, 11 May 2003 23:45:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/moving-to-linux-partitioning/After deciding to make the move to Linux, determining that my hardware is compatible with Linux, and after picking a Linux distro it&rsquo;s time to decide how to partition my hard drive.
Unlike Microsoft Windows where one partition is usually the case, Linux users agree that a few partitions should be made for certain paths that Linux uses. I&rsquo;ve done some research on the Linux Directory Structure and that would be very helpful information to read before continuing if you&rsquo;re not too familiar with Linux already.Moving to Linux - Picking a Distributionhttps://chrisshort.net/moving-to-linux-picking-a-distribution/Sat, 10 May 2003 23:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/moving-to-linux-picking-a-distribution/After deciding to move to Linux and determining that my hardware is compatible with Linux, it&rsquo;s time to pick a Linux distribution.
Choosing the right distribution for you is exactly that. You have to choose the right distribution for YOU. There is no one size fits all Linux distro. You have to think about what you&rsquo;re looking for in a Linux distro and essentially rule out the ones that won&rsquo;t fit you.Cable vs. DSLhttps://chrisshort.net/cable-vs.-dsl/Sat, 03 May 2003 22:30:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/cable-vs.-dsl/Recently there has been a huge push by digital subscriber line (DSL) providers to take a bigger chunk of the broadband market away from cable internet service providers. This has become even more apparent in recently thanks to Verizon and SBC (and I&rsquo;m sure others will follow suit) dropping their prices dramatically. This is good for broadband subscribers and people looking into broadband because the cost of high speed Internet services is coming down.Moving to Linux - Hardware Compatibilityhttps://chrisshort.net/moving-to-linux-hardware-compatibility/Tue, 29 Apr 2003 23:08:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/moving-to-linux-hardware-compatibility/The first step when preparing for the move to Linux is to make sure that your hardware is compatible. It requires a great deal of research when you get very specific (as I did). For example, I have a Logitech QuickCam Express and I wanted to make sure it would work with the latest Linux kernel. Well initially one would say, &ldquo;Well it&rsquo;s USB 1.1 it should work in Linux, no problem.Moving to Linuxhttps://chrisshort.net/moving-to-linux/Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:05:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/moving-to-linux/Like a lot of people, I for one am tired of playing Microsoft&rsquo;s silly little game. Update this, patch that, buy our new operating system that turns out to be nothing but a glorified service pack. I&rsquo;ve had it with Microsoft and the money pit that corporation has created. The sheer cost of staying up to date with Windows 2000 or Windows XP (Home or Professional) and Microsoft Office is, by itself, reason enough to look at other operating systems.NTP: You Can Use Ithttps://chrisshort.net/ntp-you-can-use-it/Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/ntp-you-can-use-it/Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a very nice feature for networks that utilize multiple devices that have administrators who view logs on a regular basis, web sites that make financial transactions, and employee time clock management systems (these are just a few examples). NTP is designed to keep accurate local time keeping. Having four different times from four different devices for one event that happened once isn&rsquo;t a good thing. Having every device in your network set to the same time is highly recommended.Internet Sociology and Internet Usagehttps://chrisshort.net/internet-sociology-and-internet-usage/Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/internet-sociology-and-internet-usage/For many years now I&rsquo;ve had the belief that Internet sociology exists. The belief came to light during my tenure as the webmaster for SanTech Computer Services. Everyone has their own personality, patterns, tendencies and so forth, this also holds true for Internet usage. Everyone uses the Internet differently. For some, their Internet use revolves around their life. For others, their life revolves around their Internet use. Then for a very small percentage of Internet users, their life and their Internet use form a somewhat symbiotic relationship where the individual has actually gotten to the point of incorporating a lifestyle that includes Internet usage to improve upon that lifestyle.Microsoft and Open Sourcehttps://chrisshort.net/microsoft-and-open-source/Thu, 06 Mar 2003 05:16:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/microsoft-and-open-source/For the past year or so Microsoft has repeatedly said no to Open Source and more recently after numerous attempts to say no has opened up some of its source code to various businesses and governments. Imagine a world where Microsoft Windows and Office were totally open. That&rsquo;s not likely; so let&rsquo;s imagine a world where Microsoft made its products a little more open.
Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short.Evolution of Windowshttps://chrisshort.net/evolution-of-windows/Mon, 03 Mar 2003 16:00:00 +0000chris@chrisshort.net (Chris Short)https://chrisshort.net/evolution-of-windows/This isn&rsquo;t a complete history of the series of Microsoft Windows. These are my views and opinions of events that took place as I experienced them. My account of events might not even hold true, but it&rsquo;s my account of things that happened, how I experienced them. It starts when I started in the tech business. A complete timeline of Windows and the Microsoft organization (including the Evolution of Windows) can be found at about.