I’ve started using Apache-Exporter1 for monitoring and checking this weekend how useful it is and how it can be integrated into my Prometheus2 monitoring enviroment. The server-status requests inevitably lead to more “background noise” in the Apache logfiles. The screenshot below clearly shows in the upper less section: Read more

Yesterday evening somebody desperately fought in despair with Packer, the younger sister of Vagrant. The goal was to create a testing farm of n machines for Virtualbox and make them accessible via SSH for further automated software testing/rollout. For me, this is much easier by using a simple bashscript. Read more

Terminal Server - A look back The second part of the home office series is about terminalservers. The concept is quite old and we can’t avoid a short excursion into the past: It leads us back to the late 40s and 50s of the last century right to the beginnings of computer history. Read more

Making of blog.jakobs.systems At the beginning of the (first?) Corona lockdown in March 2020, I was advised during an nightly Jitsi meeting by a befriended admin from Hamburg about giving Hugo a chance. Probably just after I dropped a rant about Rapidweaver, my previous static site generator on the Mac. Read more