One draw back of being in the IT industry for so many years is the amount of technologies I’ve used in all past projects, this complicates things even more when I’m on a interview and I’m asked one of the most nonesense questions, whish is: How many years of experience do you have in ____ technology? Just fill whichever technology you want in the blank and as you might know, the answer is mostly nonsense.

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Bash Search Text Creating a bash script to collect specific text from a file is a relatively simple task that can be accomplished using a few basic command line tools. In this post, we will walk through the process step-by-step, so you can start collecting the text you need in no time. First, open a text editor and create a new file. This will be the script file where we will write the commands that will collect the text from the target file.

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Getting started with Ansible Ansible is a powerful tool for automating the configuration and management of servers and infrastructure. In this blog post, we’ll go over the basics of how to get started working with Ansible, including how to install it, how to create and run a simple playbook, and how to organize and manage your playbook files. First, let’s talk about installation. Ansible is a Python-based tool, so you’ll need to have Python installed on your system in order to use it.

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Grafana - InfluxDB - Telegraf Linux Monitoring howto This is a quick tutorial to install Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf on a Debian based system Grafana has recently become one of the preferred tools for data visualization, this tool provides the users with the required tooling to display data via charts and graphs and these can be unified into one dashboard. InfluxDB is a time series database. This means that it’s a collection of observations of well-defined data items resulted through repeated measurements over time.

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