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Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
A new paper using expert interviews lays out ecosystem services provided by plankton. These range from economic provisioning of feed or oils, regulating nutrients and the #climate through the carbon pump, cultural and tourism, and oxygenation of the atmosphere. They al…

I always feel soooooo slow when I'm starting a new IaC project or doing a major refactor.
In this case there's a lot of orchestration that I'm the tying to leave room for future enhancements. Anyway it always takes long time
I'm re-working my lanecloud Ansible provisioning to better use netbox as a source of truth... And also switching to provisioning VMs with libvirt instead of nomad

Having a meeting going over a "IT Resource Provisioning Guidelines" document.
Feeling a very strong urge to play a gummy game. Or scream. The extent of bikeshedding is painful.
It's especially annoying how the bullet points which came from somewhere generic really do not work for a team of our scale with the sorts of systems we manage. e.g. on most systems the only network-login-capable accounts are sysadmins, most of whom rarely log in but all of whom need work…

well I managed to add the datastore and multi tenancy plumbing for lanecloud v2. Basically some custom fields and better lookups with netbox...
I'll have to do another pass on the VM registration playbook too.. but the provisioning playbook works great so far.