You’ve decided that using sudo to run command lines as root is lame and that it is time to step up and do things properly. How do you do that? Well, here’s a simple guide to adding oslo privsep to your project!
Author: mikal
How to make a privileged call with oslo privsep
Once you’ve added oslo privsep to your project, how do you make a privileged call? Its actually really easy to do. In this post I will assume you already have privsep running for your project, which at the time of writing limits you to OpenStack Nova in the OpenStack universe.
A first program in golang, with a short aside about Google
I have reached the point in my life where I needed to write my first program in golang. I pondered for a disturbingly long time what exactly to write, but then it came to me… Back in the day Google had an internal short URL service (think bit.ly, but for internal things). It was called…
etcd v2 and v3 data stores are separate
Just noting this because it wasted way more of my time that it should have… So you write an etcd app in a different language from your previous apps and it can’t see the data that the other apps wrote? Check the versions of your client libraries. The v2 and v3 data stores in etcd…
pyconau 2018 call for proposals now open
The pyconau call for proposals is now open, and runs until 28 May. I took my teenagers to pyconau last year and they greatly enjoyed it. I hadn’t been to a pyconau in ages, and ended up really enjoying thinking about things from topic areas I don’t normally need to think about. I think expanding…
Caliban’s War
This is the second book in the Leviathan Wakes series by James SA Corey. Just as good as the first, this is a story about how much a father loves his daughter, moral choices, and politics — just as much as it is the continuation of the story arc around the alien visitor. I haven’t…
City2Surf 2018
I registered for city2surf this morning, which will be the third time I’ve run in the event. In 2016 my employer sponsored a bunch of us to enter, and I ran the course in 86 minutes and 54 seconds. 2017 was a bit more exciting, because in hindsight I did the final part of my…
On Selecting a Well Engaged Open Source Vendor
Aptira is in an interesting position in the Open Source market, because we don’t usually sell software. Instead, our customers come to us seeking assistance with deciding which OpenStack to use, or how to embed ONAP into their nationwide networks, or how to move their legacy networks to the software defined future. Therefore, our most common role is as a trusted…
Hugo nominees for 2018
Lifehacker kindly pointed out that the Hugo nominees are out for 2018. They are: The Collapsing Empire, by John Scalzi. I’ve read this one and liked it. New York 2140, by Kim Stanley Robinson. I’ve had a difficult time with Kim’s work in the past, but perhaps I’ll one day read this. Provenance, by Ann…
I think I found a bug in python’s unittest.mock library
Mocking is a pretty common thing to do in unit tests covering OpenStack Nova code. Over the years we’ve used various mock libraries to do that, with the flavor de jour being unittest.mock. I must say that I strongly prefer unittest.mock to the old mox code we used to write, but I think I just…