@humax159 said in Ansible Create KVM Guests:

I might be missing some basic step. But in order to make it work what else is needed? on ly running this returns
'PLAY [create VMs] **************************************************************
skipping: no hosts matched'

Did you create and populate the hosts file?

@wrcombs said in Gmail Rules for Mass Emails?:

I know there is a way to set it up: I have tried various ways - setting filters for : from and TO : using the email addresses that are attached to each of the emails from the forums ( we use a mass email forum- you send out an email question, and it goes to everyone, that is a part of the forums) - Is there a way to set a rule so it goes straight into a different inbox and does notify me?

Thanks

Try searching in the "original"message. Here you can find some patterns in the header. By Using the "contains" filter, gmail checks the header too.

Also if you have gsuite you can manage additional routing rules.

@wirestyle22 said in Ansible 2.4.2.0 on CentOS 7--ping module isn't working:

@black3dynamite That looks so weird to me

shouldn't the host be ansible_host=hostname ? Did they change that?

Please post your inventory well formatted as code. It should contain a list of targets and should be passed to ansible with the -i flag. Also check the docs: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_inventory.html

@Obsolesce @black3dynamite so this chocolatey could be the missing bit to speedup redeployment of a win machine as I do with linux+ansible+current distro's repo... I will check it.

@JaredBusch said in Rethinking my backup strategy:

@matteo-nunziati not on the backup topic, but you said you switched to windows for VSCode. Why? That is completely cross platform.

@aaronstuder
Ok I'm an asshole. I've just seen my wrong reference to vs code in the original post :/.

It is visual studio 2017.

@travisdh1 said in Rethinking my backup strategy:

@Pete-S said in Rethinking my backup strategy:

@matteo-nunziati I have a suggestion. You could potentially move your entire development environment off site to the cloud/colo/whatever. And then just use your computer to remote in and do the work.

With your uploads speeds it is much faster to just run remote sessions. And with that setup you are not dependent on your laptop as it is a single failure point for your business.

Or get a fiber connection or whatever it takes to get decent internet speed. 3 Mbps is not enough.

This. 3 mbps download is enough to work remotely, but not enough to keep everything onsite and do online backups. Find a host/server in a data center to see your work on, and handwork for backups becomes a non-issue.

I have a couple of places that are in the US, but you're based somewhere in Europe, right?

Yes Europe, Italy namely.

@dave247 said in Why Are UTMs Not Recommended Generally:

@scottalanmiller said in Why Are UTMs Not Recommended Generally:

If you just want VLANs, there is no need for more than two ports on your router. You only need more than two ports when you have more than one LAN, not more than one VLAN. So that matters as to whether you need more ports or not.

I don't fully understand where you are coming from here. I have a different VLAN for each different network (LAN).

Are you talking about having sub-interfaces?

I think he means you have different phisically separated LANs

@JaredBusch said in How can I backup an Azure SQL database to Backblaze B2:

@travisdh1 said in How can I backup an Azure SQL database to Backblaze B2:

@JaredBusch said in How can I backup an Azure SQL database to Backblaze B2:

I've previously checked out their integration page, but nothing there is Azure.

I would prefer to not have to download it just to upload it, but I will if I have to.

Am I correct in thinking this is one of the managed SQL instances?

No.

WTF?! is this managed or unmanaged?! Btw you can try lambdas and b2 rest api if you are brave... I think they call lambdas something like azure functions

@dbeato said in How can I backup an Azure SQL database to Backblaze B2:

@travisdh1 said in How can I backup an Azure SQL database to Backblaze B2:

@JaredBusch said in How can I backup an Azure SQL database to Backblaze B2:

@travisdh1 said in How can I backup an Azure SQL database to Backblaze B2:

That's a managed SQL instance then.

WTF? There is only one "type" of SQL database on Azure.. If this is managed, what the hell are you trying to claim would be unmanaged?

Ah, that explains a lot. I'd normally want to go look at options so I know WTH I'm talking about next time, but Azure.

Unmanaged would be MS SQL running on a host you manage. Weather that's a VPS, "cloud", or whatever.

It is like AWS RDS instances, which are usually not easily accessible but backups can be done easily to S3.

Again moving a dump to storage and than trigger an azure function seems the most feasible even if painful solution.

Btw azure sql should have multiregion backup. Isn't it?! This will prevent DC issues.

As 1809 is out I was considering an upgrade from 1709 to 1803. To stay at current-1.

But I don't find any way to do this.
Is this possible?

@Emad-R just the quckest link on amazon italy:
Here

@scottalanmiller sorry I wanted to answer @flaxking but ended up replying to yours reply xD

@JaredBusch said in Need to parse large conf files:

@matteo-nunziati said in Need to parse large conf files:

@JaredBusch said in Need to parse large conf files:

The catching the exten => STUFF,1 is the harder part. it HAS to be that full syntaxt.

no it is simple with regex IF the line is:

exten => bla,1,bla

100% those are the only exten lines I want.

@Pete-S if the php code works for @JaredBusch , just substitute the search part with the provided regex.

@scottalanmiller said in Best way to handle switch management?:

This is a case where you might want a VLAN to put all switch functions into that separate network. That makes it like it is OOB. Network management functions is one of the better use cases for small scale VLAN.

This is exactly what we did in my previous job. Also keep racks closed and set a proper password.

@scottalanmiller said in Another VPS Kid on the block upcloud.com:

@Curtis said in Another VPS Kid on the block upcloud.com:

100% uptime SLA

With an N+1 philosophy throughout our entire infrastructure, all single points of failure have been eliminated. We trust our redundancy so much, that we will give you a 100% SLA with 50x payback for any downtime of over 5 minutes.

Interesting

Well now thats interesting.

Basically impossible to attain... Any big name had issues in the past. Even if you redund everything human error is still possible...

@Obsolesce said in What font do you use to write code?:

@Pete-S said in What font do you use to write code?:

@scottalanmiller said in What font do you use to write code?:

@matteo-nunziati said in What font do you use to write code?:

Always default but I move asap to dark themes.

Same

Don't know about you guys, but most people use dark themes because they strain their eyes with the light themes.
But the problem is not the theme, because you shouldn't get eye strain with a light theme. The real problem is that the monitor is set way too bright. Like a lot. Monitor brightness should be about equal to the ambient light level. Bright monitors make for punchy images but horrible ergonomics.

https://www.eizoglobal.com/library/Guide_to_preventing_eye_fatigue.pdf

Light themes are great with "Night light" mode turned on in Windows 10. It reduces the blue light a lot and is less bright.

I use dark themes + night light + min brightness all day long.

Floating ip. But corosync is really an overkill. Vultr has a nice guide on floating ips.

@Obsolesce said in How M$ shakedown stupid corporations:

@Emad-R said in How M$ shakedown stupid corporations:

@Dashrender

You have not seen much of "real business" then, I cannot disclose info, but I think this corp is like multi-million revenue.

Thats how it is ins real world, they get bloated and move slower, thats what happen when corp grow, if you keep it startup-ish vibe and "move fast and break things" you will be running the latest but not everyone is like that.

Besides windows painfull upgrading process helps you to stick to whats running.

And no on the client side, its all Win10 ... sadly we use Win10 to manage Linux machines
I hate that mremote/putty shit

This is false.

Big business makes quite an effort to stay current in the Windows world, especially if they are multi-billion $$ company. They HAVE to. It's not a choice.

It's constant change going on, all the time. 2019 is current, when a server is needed at all. Most are really going serverless when possible, lots of SaaS, Cloud, etc.

You might be thinking of U.S. defense companies. I mean they run old shit and pay millions and billions to maintain OAF software support.

I have to disagree: I've recently started a job as a GE/BH oil and gas consultant and they proudly stick on win 7...
They also stick with old unpatched software of all kinds... Maybe it is their italian BU only... But it is rather embarassing...

@scottalanmiller said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@Pete-S said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@matteo-nunziati said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

Don't forget openbsd:
(https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html)

That is bhyve I believe. Vmm is the kernel module of bhyve.

Ah, that would explain why I didn't know about it

Not exactly, look at this presentation from 2016 (pdf)
https://bhyvecon.org/bhyvecon2016-Mike.pdf

try this:

# initializing agi variables
declare -a array
while read -e ARG && [ "$ARG" ] ; do
 array=(` echo "$ARG" | sed -e 's/://'`)
 export ${array[0]}=${array[@]:1}
#next added line for debug only. comment this out in prod.
 echo "${array[0]}=${array[@]:1}"
done

if you want to "slice" an array use the syntax: ${array[@]:from:to}, not providing the 'to' arg means go up to the end of array.
source here.