Episode Details

Each of us brings a secret topic to the show, and we discover a common theme about using the wrong tool for the right job.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Links:

• New NASA Black Hole Sonifications with a Remix — In some ways, this sonification is unlike any other done before because it revisits the actual sound waves discovered in data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The popular misconception that there is no sound in space originates with the fact that most of space is essentially a vacuum, providing no medium for sound waves to propagate through. A galaxy cluster, on the other hand, has copious amounts of gas that envelop the hundreds or even thousands of galaxies within it, providing a medium for the sound waves to travel.
• LXD vs Docker — System containers (as run by LXD) are similar to virtual or physical machines. They run a full operating system inside them, you can run any type of workload, and you manage them exactly as you would a virtual or a physical machine.
• LXD 5.0 LTS is now available
• LXD 5.1 has been released
• pylxd — Python module for LXD
• Manage LXD instances — Ansible Documentation
• Try Infrastructure as Code eBook from Linode
• Learning Ansible Basics - Red Hat — Ansible is an open source IT automation engine that automates provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and many other IT processes.
• Installing Ansible on Ubuntu
• Ansible 101 - Ansible for Beginners
• Ansible 101 - Standards — This blog provides a list of the common standards or best practices to live by when writing Ansible code. This is an unofficial list of standards based on my personal experience with