From c3f4c1a106d2a582db3cd4a9d76ac18bbf594805 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amolith Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2023 16:18:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] add drafts --- content/posts/hey-a-new-take-on-email.md | 8 +++++ .../posts/lxd-containers-for-human-beings.md | 36 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/posts/hey-a-new-take-on-email.md create mode 100644 content/posts/lxd-containers-for-human-beings.md diff --git a/content/posts/hey-a-new-take-on-email.md b/content/posts/hey-a-new-take-on-email.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eac931b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/hey-a-new-take-on-email.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +--- +title: "HEY: a new take on email" +summary: "Gmail, Outlook, and spammers have ruined email for everyone. HEY fixes it." +date: 2023-06-24T16:50:20-04:00 +draft: true +rss_only: true +cover: ./cover.png +--- diff --git a/content/posts/lxd-containers-for-human-beings.md b/content/posts/lxd-containers-for-human-beings.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a13db8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/lxd-containers-for-human-beings.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +title: "LXD: Containers for Human Beings" +subtitle: "Docker's great and all, but I prefer the workflow of interacting with VMs" +date: 2023-06-14T10:50:41-04:00 +categories: +- Technology +tags: +- Sysadmin +- Containers +- VMs +- Docker +- LXD +draft: true +rss_only: false +cover: ./cover.png +--- + +This is a blog-post-version of a talk I presented at both Ubuntu Summit 2022 and +SouthEast LinuxFest 2023. The first was not recorded, but the second was and is +on [SELF's PeerTube instance.][selfpeertube] I apologise for the terrible, but +there's unfortunately nothing I can do about that. + +[selfpeertube]: https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/w/hjiTPHVwGz4hy9n3cUL1mq?start=1m + +## The benefits of VMs and containers + +- **Isolation:** we don't want an attacker to get into our webserver and be able + to gain access to our email server +- **Flexibility:** VMs and containers only + use the resources they've been given +- **Portability:** once set up and configured, VMs and containers can mostly be + treated as black boxes; as long as the surrounding environment is similar to + the previous in terms of communication, they can just be picked up and dropped + on bare metal servers as necessary. +- **Density:** +- **Cleanliness:**