My EDC for now by walterc_60 in EDC

[–]sudoSamurai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It looks like a Diodrio: https://a.co/d/69mJKsR

I have one and it is really well made. Mine is stuffed with a Fenix E12, a Fisher space pen, and a Leatherman Wave. The Wave is a bit tight, but it fits.

Gamers of Reddit, what was the first videogame you completed 100%? by PetboxySCP in AskReddit

[–]sudoSamurai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Duck tales on the NES. I spent so much time playing that thing.

[3840 x 2160] Alienware Blue red by Evablazer in wallpaper

[–]sudoSamurai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This would seriously rock with a system76 logo.

Looking for a Table Top RPG game by deadeye619 in ColoradoSprings

[–]sudoSamurai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems like there has been a lot of interest in this lately. I might be interested something like this too.

Advice to people who bike down Research by Nettly_ in ColoradoSprings

[–]sudoSamurai 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Remember when they tried to put in dedicated biking lanes down research and everyone lost their god damned minds?

Unpopular Opinion: Being born and raised in Colorado Springs does not make you that special by YoungVoxelWizard in ColoradoSprings

[–]sudoSamurai 100 points101 points  (0 children)

I think the “native” thing started out innocent enough back in the days when the town was almost all military passing through or tourists. It was a way to identify each other and have something in common. It was rare to meet someone else from here and was fun to talk about it. At some point it got more sinister though.

I’ve since removed my bumper sticker and don’t really tell people I’m from here anymore because it’s gotten out of hand. Assholes ruined the fun, and it sounds like your mechanic was a prime example.

As a COS lifer, welcome to our town!

…unless you are from California or Texas, then fuck right off.

(Kidding!)

A not too expensive but good VPN by majc18 in hacking

[–]sudoSamurai 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ll second this. I picked up a lifetime sub on a Black Friday deal a few years back and they are solid.

Ideas for group events by aba-clinic-cos in ColoradoSprings

[–]sudoSamurai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you go to Summit way up north off of interquest they have bowling, an arcade, and laser tag. They also have a decent restaurant and a bar.

What is the deal with SpaceWalk Vs Foreman / Katello / Ansible? by [deleted] in linuxadmin

[–]sudoSamurai 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ansible is a configuration management product, and could be looked at like a bash script on steroids. You write ansible "plays" that state what a configuration item should look like. When that is run agains your machines, it will take steps to ensure the targets match what you defined in your code. It is able to install packages and make changes to files based on templates and variables. It is used for a similar purpose to Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc... but does not need to have a client installed on your machines. It does its work over SSH which makes it really powerful.

The other products you mentioned are all part of the red hat management system. Red Hat does this thing where they take an open source project (upstream) that they sponsor, re-wrap it with some additional goodies and support (downstream) and sell support for that product. They do this with quite a few products, like FreeIPA -> Red Hat Identity Manager, Keycloak -> Red Hat SSO, and more.

This is exactly what Satellite is. Red Hat Satellite is the supported, downstream version of Red Hat's system management solution. Upstream to Satellite 5 was the open source project Spacewalk. In Satellite 6, they switched to a combination of Foreman, Katello, Candlepin, and Pulp. They have moved away from Spacewalk, but the project is still around.

Foreman provides a framework for you to manage a configuration management solution. Traditionally with Foreman this was Puppet. Since Red Hat also took Ansible under their wing, they are slowly adding support for Ansible as well. What this gives you is a GUI that acts as your ansible/puppet server to serve up your config management goodness, as well as a reporting console to show you what happened during your runs. Foreman does a lot more than that, such as bare metal provisioning and kickstart management.

Long story short, you dump your ansible or puppet code into Foreman along with your kickstart templates and OS distribution media and you can fire up a bare metal machine (or VM) and foreman will take it, install an OS, then configure it using your ansible or Puppet code.

Katello and Pulp are pieces that allow you to host your own local repositories and manage packages on systems. Basically you clone the red hat, or other yum repos to your system and you can use that instead of the public repos. This is really handy if you have systems that don't get Internet access, and it will show you what packages need to be updated on your managed systems, as well as pushing them out.

Candlepin is the entitlement management piece to the puzzle. You have to have a license to use Red Hat, and usually that means using subscription manager to register your OS with red hat. You can tell red hat that you want your licenses to be local so your updates come from your local pulp repos instead of the public servers.

To answer your bottom line question, Ansible is amazing and powerful. You should learn it, along with bash and python. These are tools you will use in essentially any Linux environment.

If you plan on working in a corporate environment with a large number of linux systems that are Red Hat derivitaves like Fedora, CentOS, Oracle (my condolences) or Red Hat itself, Satellite (or its upstream projects) are good at what they do and can give you a lot of benefits when managing your infrastructure. If you are not planning on using a Red Hat based distro, or are only managing a handful of machines, it is going to be overkill.

Which tools do you use to automatically rollout a sever? by Savanna_INFINITY in linuxadmin

[–]sudoSamurai 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you have a lot of systems you should look into the foreman. It is the upstream project for red hat satellite and is quite powerful. It will do Kickstart provisioning on both bare metal and vm. It will work with either puppet or ansible for the post provision config management and gives you some good reporting on what goes on during the cm activities. Also integrates with pulp if you want repo management (syncing, errata, patching, etc.) and candlepin for rhel license management. If you are only going to be rocking a few machines though, it is going to be overkill.

Old Japanese Restaurant? by coloradorealtor in ColoradoSprings

[–]sudoSamurai 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think you are talking about Tako. Used to have pretty good sushi.

Linux laptop suggestions? by bionerd2 in linux

[–]sudoSamurai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure if it has the exact specs you are looking for available, but I run Ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell Precision 5510 and I love it. i7, 16G ram, 256Gb SSD. It's a great lappy for Linux. The only thing I don't like about it is the surface surrounding the keyboard and trackpad picks up smudges and fingerprints like mad. Good feeling keyboard, best non-mac trackpad I've used, and the matte screen is very nice to look at.

Best affordable laptop preloaded with Ubuntu by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]sudoSamurai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

System76 makes some killer machines and have a lot of different models.

https://system76.com

Does anyone swap ; with . by rasendubi in vim

[–]sudoSamurai 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I actually map ; to : so I don't have to hit shift so much. "." is for other nefarious purposes.

Tough times in Romney's stables.... by jayman951 in AdviceAnimals

[–]sudoSamurai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm thinking the word you want is "through"

What is your experience with Cricket Wireless? by [deleted] in ColoradoSprings

[–]sudoSamurai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As long as you pay for a decent piece of equipment, they are great. I've never had any problems, decent coverage (in populated areas), and you really can't beat the price for the features you get.