Kevin Carter

Kevin Carter

United States of America
I'm me! Principal Engineer, Developer, Operator, Cloud Builder, Lover of Open Source, and hater of Nonsense (I know they're all related). My ramblings are my own.
Aug
25
They are the Platypuses

They are the Platypuses

I decided it's time I put on CloudKiller's front license plate. Instead of drilling or gluing
5 min read
Jun
26
Trello to Storyboard

Trello to Storyboard

A Tail of Two Task Trackers On this little outing I'll be migrating a Trello board to a
9 min read
Jun
18
Developing Roles with TripleO-Ansible

Developing Roles with TripleO-Ansible

Developing roles with TripleO has never been more accessible. The TripleO-Ansible project has been recently gone through a renaissance which
9 min read
May
28
vBMC, faux'ing bare-metal

vBMC, faux'ing bare-metal

VirtualBMC, or vBMC for short, is an excellent little tool which provides an IMPI interface to KVM virtual machines within
2 min read
May
03
Onward & Upward, Into the Wide Blue Yonder and the Great Unknown

Onward & Upward, Into the Wide Blue Yonder and the Great Unknown

Today was the end of the beginning. I've been a little out of sorts for the past few
7 min read
Apr
02
Running local services in network namespaces with systemd

Running local services in network namespaces with systemd

Given systemd is ubiquitous with modern day GNU/Linux it only makes sense that it be able to do just
13 min read
Dec
31
Fixing "duplicate plugin" issues in Elasticsearch

Fixing "duplicate plugin" issues in Elasticsearch

Sometimes, when installing or upgrading plugins within elasticsearch old installation files will remain after installation or removal. If these files
2 min read
Dec
24
Living with The Ridge

Living with The Ridge

So I've decided to upend my life and give up my trusty old leather wallet. I'm converting to an RFID shielding "slim" wallet!
4 min read
Oct
02
Migrating BTRFS Subvolumes locally

Migrating BTRFS Subvolumes locally

This post will focus on moving a BTRFS file system from loopback file to a mounted BTRFS subvolume on a
4 min read
Jul
18
Migrating a BTRFS Volume Between Devices

Migrating a BTRFS Volume Between Devices

When using BTRFS volumes it's sometimes necessary to move things around. BTRFS has some great tools to assist
4 min read
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