Occasionally we will deploy a virtual instance into our KVM infrastructure and realize after the fact that we need more local disk space available. This is the process we use to expand the disk image. This process assumes the following:

• You're using legacy disk partitions. The process for LVM is …

Recently, changes from the xmlgawk project have been integrated into GNU awk, and xmlgawk has been renamed to gawkextlib. With both a recent (post-4.0.70) gawk and gawkextlib built and installed correctly, you can write simple XML parsing scripts using gawk.

For example, let's say you would like to …

I really like Markdown, a minimal markup language designed to be readable as plain text that can be rendered into structurally valid HTML. Markdown is already used on sites such as GitHub and all the StackExchange sites.

I use Markdown often enough that it's become ingrained in my fingers, to …

The original problem

I've recently spent some time working on an OpenStack deployment. I ran into a problem in which the compute service would frequently stop communicating with the AMQP message broker (qpidd).

In order to gather some data on the problem, I ran the following simple test:

• Wait n …

I’ve been playing around with Git, Puppet, and GPG verification of our Puppet configuration repository, and these are some random facts about Git that have come to light as part of the process.

If you want to pull both changes and new tags from a remote repository, you can …