Digital Sanctum

Tools like Pandoc are great if you want to convert entire files from one format to another but if all you need is to replace links from one format to another sed is...

2013 It’s been seven years since I’ve written a blog post. A lot can happen in seven years and it did! I quit my job as a cloud consultant and accepted a job...

If you’d like to get up and running and hacking on OpenStack Heat this guide is for you. In this post I’ll describe how to get up and running quickly with the goal...

This post walks you through how to create local volume on a XenServer host to serve as ISO repo. 1. ssh to the XenServer host 2. Check free local disk space: df -h...

Last week I attended OpenStack Summit along with almost 3,000 other geeks in my favorite city, Portland, Oregon. I’ve been to a few conferences over the last several years but this one was...

I use ssh to gain access to several remote servers and have always wondered how to copy the contents from remote files to my local clipboard. I use a mac as my desktop...

This post shows you how to setup a PXE (Preboot execution environment) server on Ubuntu. It assumes a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 and at least two machines. One acting as the PXE...

This tutorial will walk through the steps necessary for a completely automated installation of Ubuntu. First, download an ISO to use as the starting point. Create a work directory and extract the ISO...