Blog & News
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How to renew Puppet CA and server certificates in place
Erstellt von Christian Kauhaus | | BlogWeiterlesenIt used to run fine for years... but now the (deprecated) Puppet infrastructure at the Flying Circus is showing signs of aging. It's not about server hardware or something like this (fully virtualized anyway) – it's about SSL certificates of Puppet's…
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Self-service User Management
Erstellt von Christian Zagrodnick | | BlogWeiterlesenWe have prepared an update to my.flyingcircus.io which allows you to manage the users who have access to your projects, but more on that later.
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Internal and External Interfaces From an Operations Perspective (long read)
Erstellt von Christian Theune | | BlogWeiterlesenWe recently pitched for a project that explicitly asked for a team with experience dealing with a system that has many interfaces. I sat down and wrote an overview of our experience and what we learned about internal and external interfaces over time…
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S3 outage: more diversity needed
Erstellt von Christian Zagrodnick | | BlogWeiterlesenThe latest Amazon S3 outage showed me one thing again: more diversity is better.
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How we are improving our infrastructure for better reliability and scalability
Erstellt von Christian Theune | | BlogWeiterlesenIn 2016 we have seen substantial growth in our infrastructure after we changed our pricing model to make resources more affordable and as we introduced NixOS-based 64-bit virtual machines. Unfortunately under this growth we have failed to adapt our…