NGINX Rewrite Directives, The 9/10 Solutions When doing ADC/Load Balancer work, nearly all requests fit into two categories: Please rewrite part of the URL/URI Please change the host header for this reverse proxy These are fairly simple to implement in NGINX, so I'm creating a couple of cheat-sheet code snippets here. …

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Continuous Delivery: No Rest for the Wicked Now that we have: A method to generate Desired State Configurations, by defining Declaratively what the device config should be, and combining it with what a device config should have A method to apply configurations automatically, without PuTTY Copy-Pasting We now can …

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Don't Reinvent the Wheel: Ansible Playbooks Writing your own code isn't always the answer Often, communities such as Python will contribute code of substantially higher quality than what you/I can create individually. This is OK. In nearly every case, dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist programmers will consume …

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Since I'm building a hybrid systems/networking lab, one of the key features I'll need is a serial console server to administer the lab switches. There are a few options here: Find an old Cisco Router and some async octal cables (Rare, takes up rack space) Purchase a serial console server like MRV, Perle, …

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