Git : have you ever tried to play with it ? For several years I’m working with that fantastic tool. Anyway the biggest problem is : if you don’t work day to day with Git, you need a memento or something similar (like my wiki 😉). Also, if you use it for your personal usage, you’ll be lost when you will work with complex workflows. As I’m not a developer, I use Git to manage my etc configuration, my puppet manifests, my custom scripts…so many basic usage that really help me to win time as a sysadmin.

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As you may know, I’m a MediaWiki’s fan. I manage and use it since 2006 and you can see what I do with on my wiki. I’ve always learned by myself, how to do things on MediaWiki as my needs were classical and for a single user. Some weeks ago, I’ve made a big upgrade for the last company I’ve worked for (Linagora) and I wanted to implement interesting features for a multi users usage.

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Last week, I started to play with LXC. It is the userspace control package for Linux Containers, a lightweight virtual system mechanism sometimes described as “chroot on steroids”. LXC builds up from chroot to implement complete virtual systems, adding resource management and isolation mechanisms to Linux’s existing process management infrastructure. I wanted to look at an alternative of OpenVZ and LXC seams to be the better solution. That’s why I started to play with.

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A few months ago, I wanted to install as fast as possible new VMs headless. In addition, I wanted to give the possibility for my ex colleagues to be able to easily create remote VMs on my desktop as most of them got slow machines. KVM did the job perfectly. I also needed to quickly deploy Debian, so I made a pressed file. Here at eNovance, I can be selfish :-p as everybody got a fast machine (Thanks eNovance).

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