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CentOS and Newer Versions of Python
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
When working on Python development locally on my Arch machine, I am generally either working on Python 3.7 or 3.8. This is usually not an issue since Lambda natively supports Python 3.7. However, on CentOS 7 and 8 the latest version of Python available is 3.6. In order to sanely get Python 3.7 on CentOS I wrote the following little playbook that uses Pyenv to install the version of Python I need on the servers. …
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Vagrant, Libvirt, and nftables
Monday, August 17, 2020
Vagrant and libvirt work just fine together when using the standard iptables firewalling, but I wanted to move to the simpler (IMO) nftables. However, getting everything working properly was no simple task, so here is the process of how I got it all to work (finally). …
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CentOS 8 Software RAID Monitoring
Sunday, July 5, 2020
My current home server uses software Linux RAID to run my two large RAID arrays. By default, CentOS 8 does not monitor the status of these RAID devices for you. It is highly recommended that you set up the monitoring of your devices lest you forget and have all your data disappear. …