SysAdmin-DevOps

A recent storm in which lightning struck rather close to my residence, and fried various bits of networking equipment, caused a whole different type of migratory nerding.

I’ve been experimenting with Terraform to manage a number of Public Cloud Infrastructure instances (virtual machines) on OVHcloud. I hit an issue that affects both OVH API and OpenStack API on OVH. For OpenStack on OVH there are ‘Resource Not Found’ issues which seem to be experienced by others as well. For the OVH Terraform provider plugin there are issues with id’s being changed.

So far the upshot of this is to not expect a simple Export/Import process with WordPress, especially when it comes to the Media Library, if one wants to rebuild a site at the same domain, rather than a domain move, with the previous domain still active.

Linux LVM thin pools and volumes initially seem to be a great way maximize the use of hard drive space by using only the space that is actually allocated to files. There is a major fly in the ointment though. Thin pools cannot be reduced in size.

In my opinion, Windows is deceptively clear and smooth, but with use, one finds significant imperfections. Linux may feel a little less polished, but is more what you see is what you get (or better) — there are imperfections for a power user / developer like me, but those idiosyncrasies are minor compared to the more problematic ones found in Windows.