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AnsibleFest 2018: Community project highlights

October 8, 2018

ARA Records Ansible 0.15 has been released

May 3, 2018

Scaling ARA to a million Ansible playbooks a month

April 9, 2018

Awesome things in software engineering: open source

February 24, 2018

Rebranding Ansible Run Analysis to ARA Records Ansible

February 23, 2018
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The BASH CVE-2014-6271 'Shellshock' vulnerability

September 25, 2014 David Moreau Simard

5 minute read

A bash vulnerability ? Talk about a lot of servers affected.

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    • bash
    • shellshock
    • linux
    • cve-2014-6271
    • cve-2014-7169
    • cve-2014-7186
    • cve-2014-7187
    • continuous integration

SSL, Google, Cloudflare, Webmaster tools and you

August 23, 2014 David Moreau Simard

3 minute read

Google recently made waves on the internet when they announced they would now rank favorably sites that were secured by SSL.

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    • webservers
    • ssl
    • google
    • seo
    • cloudflare
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Send your encrypted Duplicity backups to a Swift Object storage

August 12, 2014 David Moreau Simard

6 minute read

Duplicity is a Python utility that backups your stuff, encrypts it and allows you to upload them away using as little bandwidth as possible using the rsync algorithm.

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    • openstack
    • swift
    • object storage
    • backups
    • duplicity

A new Ceph mirror on the east coast

August 9, 2014 David Moreau Simard

1 minute read

I’m glad to announce that Ceph is now part of the mirrors iWeb provides.

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    • ceph

Deploy virtual machines in Openstack with Vagrant

June 28, 2014 David Moreau Simard

1 minute read

Vagrant is awesome as part of a development workflow.

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    • openstack
    • vagrant
    • virtualization

A use case of Tengine, a drop-in replacement and fork of nginx

June 21, 2014 David Moreau Simard

4 minute read

I’ve always been a fan of nginx, it was love at first sight.

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    • ceph
    • openstack
    • webservers
    • nginx
    • tengine
    • taobao
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    • radosgw
    • swift
    • object storage

Hours of free CCNA training video material

May 18, 2014 David Moreau Simard

1 minute read

About a year ago, Andrew Crouthamel launched a kickstarter to produce a free series of videos about the CCNA Cisco certification. Andrew is a Cisco Certified Academy Instructor and he’s actually been teaching CCNA courses so he’s knowledgeable about the training material.

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    • cisco
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Inktank and Redhat to open source Calamari, the Ceph web interface

May 3, 2014 David Moreau Simard

1 minute read

You might have heard this already but Redhat made an annoucement last week that they will be acquiring Inktank, the company behind Ceph.

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    • ceph
    • calamari
    • inktank
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No network on Ubuntu 14.04 cloud-image with cloud-init

May 2, 2014 David Moreau Simard

2 minute read

I had this weird problem while testing the brand new Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty in my Openstack environment.
Same image, same flavors, same specifications - sometimes even the same nova-compute host. I spawn 20 VMs and maybe 50% of the VMs spawned wouldn’t ping.

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    • ubuntu
    • linux
    • networking

Puppet 3.4 is started by default in Ubuntu 14.04

April 17, 2014 David Moreau Simard

2 minute read

With Ubuntu’s Trusty Tahr imminent release, I’ve been poking around to see what changes there are and how they could have an impact on the work I do.

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    • ubuntu
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Recent Posts

AnsibleFest 2018: Community project highlights

October 8, 2018

ARA Records Ansible 0.15 has been released

May 3, 2018

Scaling ARA to a million Ansible playbooks a month

April 9, 2018

Awesome things in software engineering: open source

February 24, 2018

Rebranding Ansible Run Analysis to ARA Records Ansible

February 23, 2018
View more posts

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Hi! I'm David or otherwise known online as dmsimard. I'm a Principal Software Engineer and contributor to the upstream Ansible community at Red Hat. I don't blog much anymore but feel free to reach out and chat !

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