Episode 117 – Planning Maintenance

Welcome to Episode 117

Main Topic

  • Preparing for Maintenance
    • How do you make sure a new deployment is ready for prime time? 
      • Testing
    • How do you plan a maintenance window? 
      • Do you have pre-set maintenance windows?
      • What is considered “down time” for your business? 
        • Or maybe just what isnt prime time?
    • How do you prepare your team for a go-live? 
      • Is your new deployment well defined?
        • Documentation
        • Architecture diagrams?
        • Can another admin jump in using your docs and troubleshoot a problem?
      • Has it passed whatever security checks your business has?
      • What about vendor involvement? 
    • How do you spend the first week (or weeks?) after go-live? 
      • Increased monitoring
      • How do you “operationalize”? 

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Episode 116A – Control Groups in Linux

Welcome to Episode 116

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Episode 116b – Legislating facebook news feeds, samba fruit, bad rappers, and google kills another one.

Welcome to Episode 116

Announcements

 

Chat

  • Nate has been sucked into valheim, deep
    • I googled this and was very let down when I saw NO HAMMERS…  *sigh* [XenoPhage]
    • But managed to get older last week
    • And watch the King of the Hammers race! 
    • Hand-me-down computer fail.
  • unclemarc 
    • And here I thought the mistake was buying the PS5
    • Finished watching The Expanse, now started buying the books and am re-watching series from beginning
    • Made the mistake of downloading Destiny 2 on the PS5
  • Jason
    • Work work work
    • I’ll beat Halo..  Just need to actually play it..
    • Fell in an Aground rabbit hole..
    • Rewatching Merlin

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