A little while back I added support for DigitalOcean to the ExternalDNS Helm chart, and I wanted to share my notes on how to use it. ExternalDNS is an extremely convenient tool that allows you to dynamically control DNS records for your Kubernetes resources just by adding an annotation. In …
Obligatory comment about how it s been quite awhile since the last time I ve blogged With that out of the way, I wanted to share a few things that I ve done recently that might be useful for others. In particular, there are a couple DigitalOcean related tools that …
Recently, I ve been using Fabric quite a bit. It is simple, Pythonic, and I ve grown to enjoy using it for automating basic systems administration tasks when a full-fledged configuration management system is more than you need for the job. For the most part, Fabric keeps to the basics …
The other weekend I took some time to play around with the DigitalOcean API , and this is what resulted. The DigitalOcean indicator allows you to monitor and manage your droplets directly from your panel. You can: Quickly see which droplets are active. Reboot, power on, and/or power down you …
If you follow me on Google+, you already know about this, but it seems like it s time to introduce this to a larger audience. Mostly an excuse to play with the new Ubuntu SDK , I ve created StackBrowser. It allows you to explore the StackExchange network natively on Ubuntu …
For some time now, I ve been using Trello to organize my free software contributions. My main use is to give me a cross-project view of what I m working on. As most of my contributions stem from packaging software for Debian and Ubuntu, I end up working on and …
After helping to review applications for the Ubuntu App Showdown, I had the urge to take another look at the state of quickly, Ubuntu s quick starter for app development. So here we have TypeCatcher . It allows you to search, browse, and download Google webfonts for off-line use. You can …
I maintain a GCal of the Ubuntu release schedule , and I just updated it to contain the proposed schedule for the Q-series. As you can imagine, adding all those events by hand can be annoying. Luckily you can use Google App Script , which is more or less JavaScript for the …
I ve been following the discussion around the potential switch from Banshee back to Rhythmbox for Precise, and I really don t have all that much to add. Though I did come across an interesting post from an upstream Tomboy developer that deserves some wider attention. He argues that upstreams …
For awhile now, I ve felt like the ubuntu-motu mailing list has been a shadow of its former self. It turns out that empirical data backs up this feeling. I produced a histogram of mailinglist volume over time: I also figured I should take a look at ubuntu-devel: That graph …
An election for a recently opened spot on the DMB has just begun. While all the names of those nominated are familiar to me, I still need some more information to make a decision. All of the candidates are eminently qualified. Unfortunately, the call for votes didn t include any …
One thing I ve been missing recently has been having the Ubuntu release schedule in my calendar. Steve Langasek used to provide one in ical format , but it wasn t update for Natty nor Oneiric. The Fridge has a calandar containing a schedule of events for #ubuntu-meeting, but that doesn …
AskUbuntu is continuing to grow. According to the Stack Exchange site directory , we have: 17k Questions 31k Answers 19k User 21k Visits/Day 81% of questions have accepted answers While 81% puts us into the same league as Stack Overflow and Super User, we still have hundreds of questions without …
I’ve recently set up a stronger (4096R) OpenPGP key, and will be transitioning away from my old (1024D) one. The old key will continue to be valid for some time, but i prefer all future correspondence to come to the new one. I would also like this new key …
Please excuse this break from your normally scheduled Ubuntu programing Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières ( MSF ) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization. If you can spare even a few dollars to help in the emergency efforts under way in Haiti, I strongly recommend giving what you can to …
Well, I finally made it to a Ubuntu Developer Summit. It s been great to put some faces on the names I interact with on mailing-lists and read in changelogs. I don t really have much to pontificate on so this will be quick, but there are a couple things …
One of the things that I ve always loved about bzr is that it is a powerful yet intuitive solution for version control. Now Bazaar Explorer , a wonderful cross-platform Qt-based GUI front-end to the Bazaar VCS , is making it even easier. Whether you re just getting started with DVCS or …
Well, not really . For some reason, my spam folder doesn t contain the usual Viagra, porn, and Nigerian prince emails. The most frequent spam I receive generally is letting me know that I just won £1,000,000 in the U.K. National Lottery. As I ve only been in …
As I m sure you all know by now, Ubuntu (and friends) 9.10 Beta images were released yesterday. What you might not know is that the countdown banners have also been released. You can grab them here . Option 1 - Stars by Thorsten Wilms (thorwil) <script type= "text/javascript" src …
The week of September 14-21, 2009 is Mozilla Service Week , brought to you by the good folks behind Firefox and Thunderbird. They ve partnered with Idealist.org , a non-profit jobs listing site, to link service-minded techies with non-profit organizations in need to their help. We re looking for people who …
I am sure you ve all seen this already, but I just wanted to add my congratulations every one involved in the open sourcing of Launchpad ! After the friendly and inclusive nature of the Ubuntu community, Launchpad and Bazzar really are responsible for deepening my involvement in development. I find …
With hundreds of thousands of downloads on GNOME -Look, GNOME -Colors (and its friends Shiki-Colors and Arc-Colors ) is with out a doubt one of the most popular themes around for the GNOME desktop. It s no surprise with six different color themes and the ability to match you icon theme …
Ubuntu NGO will be having its first meeting this Friday, 26th June 2009, 15:00 UTC in #ubuntu-ngo on irc.freenode.net A little over a month ago, Daniel Holbach asked who was using Ubuntu in their NGO ? In the time that s passed, a group of Ubunteros has coalesced …
Awhile back I hacked up a few Ubuntu releated scripts for Ubiquity. No, not the Ubuntu installer. The Firefox add-on. Now that I have one of these fancy blog thing-a-majigs, I figured I d share them with all of you. Hopefully some one else will find them useful. To make …
So earlier today I was throwing together a script to publish bzr snapshots to a PPA . My use case was pretty simple. It s a debian native package. So the packaging and upstream are one and the same, so no need to merge branches or make sure patches apply cleanly …
Last week I made the big leap from contributor to developer. At the most recent MOTU -Council meeting, my application to become a Master of the Universe was approved! Now, I want to take a minute and think about the Ubuntu Universe Contributor (aka Ubuntu Contributing Developers) program, how we …
The Ubuntu Artwork community just made the first official beta release of the Breathe Icon Theme. It s a refresh of the Human icon theme using Oxygen as a base. The idea is to create as modern a set as Oxygen but with that distinctly Human feel. You can grab …
Ubuntu+1 has an active user based which needs to be better utilized. Over at the Ubuntu Forums, there is a Karmic Koala Testing and Discussion sub-forum. While it s mostly users helping each other through the bumpy adventure of running the development release (along with some people engaged in …
Alright, I ve been a Ubuntu Member since last October, and I haven t set up a blog to be syndicated on Planet Ubuntu yet. That changes now. There hasn t been an UbuntuOne post in almost two days. I just couldn t let that happen. Let me tell you …