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Those that know me, will vouch that I am a big lover of fancy dashboards, metrics and monitoring. I recently became a customer of Octopus Energy after a situation with Yorkshire Energy, and Scottish Power left a bad taste in my mouth (and wallet) One of the things I really like about Octopus is thatContinue reading Monitoring my energy consumption with Octopus Energy, Grafana, Influxdb and Node.js
As I’m starting to investigate K8’s as a replacement for docker swarm, I have been seeing how to integrate it with our cloud infrastructure. I found a plugin which integrates the volumes, networking etc in with openstack natively, meaning that instead of doing a “volume mount” in docker swarm, with the dirs pinned to aContinue reading Installing Kubernetes on Openstack with Cinder integration for persistent volume mounts
Thought this was a cool one to share, it’s been a while since I posted something on here! At home I have 4 27″ HP G27 monitors, one is a G2 and the other three are G1’s With the whole COVID thing going on, I was using my home PC to work, however I figuredContinue reading Changing monitor input settings with ddccontrol and bash on Ubuntu 20.04
Good evening all! Nice new shiny theme on the blog, I got a little tired of the old one, I’ve been working on some PowerShell recently and I thought I would share with you all. In my job I was presented with a huge job, to restructure our ancient file server and migrate our structure intoContinue reading Powershell NTFS Permission Scanner