With our sponsorship of EuroBSDcon 2013, a blog-post on the topic of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD felt in order. If you didn’t already know it, we’re one of the few cloud providers in the world that allows you to run unmodified FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD (including derivatives, such as pfSense). If you simply want to take one of these systems …
Simplifying maintenance with fabric and pycloudsigma
When you’re working with a cloud infrastructure, it’s pretty common that you need to perform the same task on all your servers. Perhaps you need deploy a hotfix, or simply just check what kernel version your servers are running. The traditional sysadmin way of doing this was to simply write a for-loop in shell-script which fires off the execution of …