Today, I’m adding Elixir and Erlang to my attention context. I’ll start exploring this ecosystem more closely. Several characteristics of Elixir and Erlang are particularly appealing for my projects. Other than that busy by working on PKI and EJBCA.
Establishing PHP dev and pod environments Still continuing my 2024-jul-13 journey. Because there are no any Dev/Prod enviroment whatsoever… I need to create one. At the same time I have no experience with PHP runtimes and need to learn a bit about it. At this day, I managed to create working containerized Nginx, PHP-FPM and MariaDB workload to run PHP applications. I used Ansible roles/playbooks and Podman Quadlets (Systemd units) for the container management as they don’t need Kubernetes for sure....
Migrating old databases Currently mostly busy with modernizing 15 years old infrastructure of some customer. Old and huge MySQL databses. No foreign keys. No timestamps. It’s all pretty convoluted. Many VM’s running directly on KVM without libvirt abstraction. Failing hard drives. Old PHP. And the overaly of many “big brain” sysadmins. But at least, I gained full access to the most of the resources, restored passwords, established secure remote access, etc....
Looks like my little starter blog is working. At least there is some activity around it. After all the things I went back to rewriting my infra components to Podman Quadlets 1 by utilizing Ansible. I think, I figured out general pattern. Yet, I’m not quite happy how do I handle network creation. I need to encapsulate it into single generic role instead writing the same network role in every collection....
Tinkering with my Hugo blog I’m still not sure what will I do with it, but… at least this will be done. I picked Hugo as it seems simple enough for my current needs. Just drop some markdown and you are done. Sounds good. I don’t even plan to customize default theme for now as typography looks good, theme is supported. Like… there is everything I need. Most important goal for me is to start accumulate some content....