The Iron Sysadmin

Welcome to Episode 118 Main Topic

• Cyber Warfare (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare) 
  • There’s this thing going on with Russia and the Ukraine.Maybe you've heard. 
  • https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/50/ 
  • White House Statement on Cyber Security (March 21, 2022)
  • https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/21/statement-by-president-biden-on-our-nations-cybersecurity/
  • Nation States
  • Ideological groups (“Hacktivism”)
  • Direct attacks
  • Malware
  • Banning of services
  • https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/21/22988955/russia-facebook-instagram-putin-meta-whatsapp-ban-ukraine 
  • Answers vary based on who you’re talking to, and what they're selling.
  • A lot comes down to what industry you’re in.
  • How can you prepare?
  • Directly?  Probably not. 
  • Indirectly, maybe, but there isn't a ton you can do about that. (is there?)
  • If you run an open source project for example?
  • https://opensource.org/blog/open-source-protestware-harms-open-source 
  • Should you be attacking other nations?
  • Companies who have suspended services in Russia
  • Apple
  • Google
  • Red Hat
  • Microsoft
  • Mastercard
  • Visa
  • Airbus
  • Meta
  • Many More: https://startuptalky.com/companies-suspended-operations-russia/ 
• Why is this topical?
• What constitutes Cyber Warfare?
• Should I be worried as a sysadmin?
• What about as an individual? 
• Is it ethical for you to participate?
• How companies are “contributing”

• • • Companies who have suspended services in Russia
      • Apple
      • Google
      • Red Hat
      • Microsoft
      • Mastercard
      • Visa
      • Airbus
      • Meta
      • Many More: https://startuptalky.com/companies-suspended-operations-russia/ 

 

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Welcome to Episode 118 Announcements

• Patreon Update
• Z(ed)-Thor
• name_pending197
• Jérémy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• Matt
• David
• S0l3mn
• Trooper_Ish
• LiNuXsys666
• Mark
• The Mentor
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
• 22532
• Get your Iron Sysadmin Merch at Teespring! https://teespring.com/stores/ironsysadmin 
• CINLUG 4/6
• Support the Iron Sysadmin Podcast AND try out Riverside.fm by using this link: https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=ironsysadmin 

Chat

• Gangrif
  • https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/54214-endless-customizable-interchangeable-shelf
  • https://hub.docker.com/r/gangrif/vrspace 
  • https://vrspace.org 
• Have not 3d printed much, but I am planning on this cool modular shelf system
• Roll20 has a dark mode now.  Kinda cool.
• I am going to be on RHEL Presents on 4/6! 
• Replaced my last C by GE LED strip with WLED
• VRSpace Container
• unclemarc 
  • Watch me roll around like a fool - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrLbmbmYajGguoI1lWXP8L2RwRQjGOYF
• Elden Ring is boss
• New role at the Hat
• XenoPhage
• AC Valhalla!
• And next on deck is Wonderlands and Stranger of Paradise!
• Uh…  Mostly been work and just chilling otherwise..

News

• https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/tech/okta-breach-acknowledgment/index.html
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-24/apple-is-working-on-a-hardware-subscription-service-for-iphones 
• https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-europe-new-york-new-york-city-5f1a7dbd9ba08562aff894c982b470a9 
• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-analysis-captured-perseverance-rover-reveals.html 
• https://www.businessinsider.com/open-source-developers-burnout-low-pay-internet-2022-3 (https://web.archive.org/web/20220320083930/https://www.businessinsider.com/open-source-developers-burnout-low-pay-internet-2022-3) 
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/

 

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Welcome to Episode 117 Main Topic

• Preparing for Maintenance
• How do you make sure a new deployment is ready for prime time? 
• Testing
• How do you plan a maintenance window? 
• Do you have pre-set maintenance windows?
• What is considered “down time” for your business? 
• Or maybe just what isnt prime time?
• How do you prepare your team for a go-live? 
• Is your new deployment well defined?
• Documentation
• Architecture diagrams?
• Can another admin jump in using your docs and troubleshoot a problem?
• Has it passed whatever security checks your business has?
• What about vendor involvement? 
• How do you spend the first week (or weeks?) after go-live? 
• Increased monitoring
• How do you “operationalize”? 

Announcements

• Patreon Update
• Z-Thor
• name_pending197
• Jérémy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• Matt
• David
• S0l3mn
• Trooper_Ish
• LiNuXsys666
• gimpyb
• Mark
• The-Mentor
• Jon
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
• 22532
• Get your Iron Sysadmin Merch at Teespring! https://teespring.com/stores/ironsysadmin 
• Support the Iron Sysadmin Podcast AND try out Riverside.fm by using this link: https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=ironsysadmin 

Chat

• Jason finally beat halo infinite
• Nate’s still valheiming
• Truly open metaverse? https://opensource.com/article/22/1/open-source-metaverse 

 

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Welcome to Episode 116 Main Topic

• Cgroups with Unclemarc!
  • Paul Menage and Rohit Seth
  • Solaris implemented zones in 2004, which featured resource groups, providing cgroup-like functionality
  • Kernel version  2.6.24
  • Re-design for v2 begin in 2013
  • Cpu
  • Memory
  • Disk (I/O)
  • Cpuset
  • v1 - https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/cgroups.txt
  • V2 - https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
• What problem are we trying to solve?
• Started at Google in 2006, originally named “process containers”
• Renamed to “control groups” and Introduced into kernel in 2007
• First appeared in RHEL 6 but none of the tooling was enabled by default
• Critical component of systemd, so they’ve been active on RHEL since RHEL 7
• RHEL 8 is the first Red Hat OS to support cgroups v2 
• Most useful controllers (supported via systemd)
• My blogs - https://www.redhat.com/en/authors/marc-richter
• RHEL 8 docs - https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/managing_monitoring_and_updating_the_kernel/setting-limits-for-applications_managing-monitoring-and-updating-the-kernel
• Kernel docs
• Comics!  https://wizardzines.com/comics/cgroups/
• https://blog.godshell.com/its-docker-its-a-container-its-a-process/
• Covers namespaces and cgroups (moreso namespaces)

 

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Welcome to Episode 116 Announcements

• Patreon Update
• Z-Thor
• name_pending197
• Jérémy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• Matt
• David
• S0l3mn
• Trooper_Ish
• LiNuXsys666
• gimpyb
• Mark
• The-Mentor
• Jon
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
• 22532
• Folks who should have received Merch:
• Matt, Mark, and Arinomi!
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Chat

• Nate has been sucked into valheim, deep
  • I googled this and was very let down when I saw NO HAMMERS…  *sigh* [XenoPhage]
• But managed to get older last week
• And watch the King of the Hammers race! 
• Hand-me-down computer fail.
• unclemarc 
  • And here I thought the mistake was buying the PS5
• Finished watching The Expanse, now started buying the books and am re-watching series from beginning
• Made the mistake of downloading Destiny 2 on the PS5
• Jason
• Work work work
• I’ll beat Halo..  Just need to actually play it..
• Fell in an Aground rabbit hole..
• Rewatching Merlin

News

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44142 
• https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/10/22927472/klobuchar-lummis-algorithm-bill-section-230-misinformation-teenager-mental-health
• https://kotaku.com/google-stadia-streaming-failing-shutdown-report-stream-1848487185 
• https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-alleged-conspiracy-launder-45-billion-stolen-cryptocurrency
• BONUS CONTENT!
• RAZZLEKHAN - https://razzlekhan.com/
• https://www.engadget.com/razzlekhan-rap-cryptocurrency-012307238.html 

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Welcome to Episode 115 Main Topic 

• How has sysadminning changed
  • System Operator
  • System Administrator
  • BOFH references galore
  • The ability to automate builds made it easier to build faster
  • But systems were still mostly manually configured
  • Now systems were not bound to hardware in the traditional sense
  • VM Sprawl
  • Meant larger fleets to manage
  • Templating and cloning makes standing up new machines even faster/simpler
  • Pets vs Cattle
  • Disposable systems
  • Containerization
  • Infrastructure as code! 
  • On-demand functions like lambda
  • Any predictions on what Sysadmin will look like in 10 more years? Or even 5?! 
• Sysadmin in the classic sense
• Early Build Automation (such as kickstart, and ghost)
• Virtual Machines, and what that meant
• Config management and automation
• Cloud Deployments
• What’s next?

 

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Welcome to Episode 115b Announcements

• Patreon Update
• Z-Thor
• name_pending197
• Jérémy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• Matt
• David
• S0l3mn
• Trooper_Ish
• LiNuXsys666
• gimpyb
• Mark
• The-Mentor
• Jon
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
• 22532
• Get your Iron Sysadmin Merch at Teespring! https://teespring.com/stores/ironsysadmin 
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Chat

• [Jason]
• Had a “water event” dont buy a house from a plummer.  :P 

• [nate]
• I’m a space farmer now
• Trying to 3d print costume armor
• Yet another LED project, this will finally eradicate C by GE lighting from my household.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sd1m14/what_is_something_ancient_that_only_an_internet/

News

• https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/ 
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30055222 
• https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/27/22904908/apple-ios-15-4-beta-1-developer-face-id-mask 
• https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/google-just-gave-you-best-reason-yet-to-finally-quit-using-chrome.html 
• https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

 

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Welcome to Episode 114

 

Main Topic

• 2021 year in #nerdlife? 
  • Framework laptops
  • Chip shortage & supply chain issues. Plus stupid scalpers
    • Crypto has totally jumped the shark and become Mary Kay for bros
  • • I can haz PS5?
    • I can haz new XBox?
    • I can haz video card?
  • The Occulus Quest 2 took Christmas.
  • • $300 entry into VR
  • Log4j sucks
  • • Large orgs running on undersourced Open Source projects continues to be something we just don’t deal with
  • Windows 11
  • iPhone 13
  • Pixel 6
  • Zuck wants to rule the virtual world
  • Movies
  • • Matrix, with old Neo
    • Dune finally is good
    • And we get a decent Ghostbusters as well
    • Encanto (surprisingly good!)
  • TV
    • Season 6, Final season
  • • Boba (black sheep) Fett
    • Bad Batch
    • Expanse
    • Lots of Marvel goodness on Disney+
• • Hardware
  • Software
  • Phones 
  • Culture

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Welcome to Episode 114 Announcements

• Patreon Update
• • Z-Thor
  • name_pending197
  • Jérémy
  • Arinomi
  • Andrew
  • Tatro
  • Bruce
  • Robert
  • Matt
  • David
  • S0l3mn
  • Trooper_Ish
  • LiNuXsys666
  • gimpyb
  • Mark
  • The-Mentor
  • Jon
  • Marc
  • Julius
  • Andi
  • J
  • Charles
  • 22532

 

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Chat

[unclemarc]

• Gaming on da PS5
• • NMS
  • Returnal
  • Deathloop
  • Ghost of Tsushima
• Skilling up on IPA for a new account

 

[nate]

• The alienware is now liquid cooled
• Animal crossing is.. Surprisingly chill and enjoyable.
• 3d printer upgrades.

News

• https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/26/us/habitat-for-humanity-first-3d-home-trnd/index.html 
• https://www.techradar.com/news/sonos-wins-patent-lawsuit-against-google-heres-what-it-means-for-you 
• https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874949/developer-corrupts-open-source-libraries-projects-affected 
• https://www.techradar.com/news/norton-antivirus-under-fire-again-over-crypto-mining-feature 

 

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Welcome to Episode 113 Main Topic

• Virtual worlds, and metaverses
  • First let’s talk about VR 
  • Now, what is a “Metaverse”?
    • Principles of the web
    • The next evolution of the web
    • What we’re being sold… 
  • Meta, Facebook, and their metaverse
    • https://about.fb.com/news/2021/09/building-the-metaverse-responsibly/
    • Horizon Worlds - accessible on quest only now
      • Not sure if that will expand, data currently is vague
  • Other virtual worlds calling themselves Metaverses
    • The Sandbox
      • https://thesandbox-game.com/ 
    • Decentraland
      • https://decentraland.org/ 
  • Other things that are metaverse adjacent
    • Second Life
    • VRChat
    • Roblox
    • Minecraft
    • Others?
  • Open Metaverse Foundation
    • https://github.com/openmetaversefoundation 
  • Wrap-up

 

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