Recent content on Jamie Nguyen’s Blog
In December, I did my first Advent of Code (opens in new tab) . I used Ansible, which is a terrible choice for programming challenges but that’s part of the fun! Note I gave myself these rules:
libvirt is an amazing tool for managing virtual machines. However, it can be difficult to know where to start because it’s so powerful and offers so many different possibilities. Virtual networks are an area of libvirt that’s often confusing for new users. This motivated me to write the libvirt Networking Handbook to demonstrate the most common aspects of libvirt networking, whether running…
In 2013, I wrote a series of four blog posts describing how to act as your own certificate authority using the OpenSSL command-line tools. Interestingly, traffic to the series increased significantly after the Heartbleed vulnerability. I’ve recently made many improvements and additions. The series is now available as a standalone document titled OpenSSL Certificate Authority .