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It's been one hell of a ride, but we are parting ways as The rollBak. Listen to our epilogue here on what we're doing, where we're going, and some final reflections on the show.    Thank you all for your support. Until next time, you can find us at the various links below:   Chris: https://twitter.com/admindev_ chris@admindev.tech Will update when the other two sites are online via Twitter.    Mike: Email: mikelevantech@gmail.com @JerseySysadmin https://www.thelifeofanengineer.org/   Phil: pafable.com   It's been great. See you next time.   - Chris

Just kidding ;)   Today we are discussing Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code. Yes, there is a difference! At least, we think there is. What about you? We dive into our favorite CM/IaC tools, what cool things we like to do, where they helped us out, and what we would do if we were running our own thang.   Leave us questions, comments, feedback, and more on Stitcher or iTunes!

We're back! After both Mike and Phil destroyed their computers in epic fashion, we have returned to record our AWS conclusion and dive into our projects.   Please let us know what you think and feel free to leave any feeback or review!

EC2 to know: AMI Pricing Options (On-Demand, Reserved) and Tenancy Remote Access Security Groups User Data EBS Volumes Protecting Data, Snapshots, Recovery, and Encryption  Snapshots after the first are differential.   VPC to know: VPC and CIDR  Subnets, CIDR, Route Tables, IGW Internet Gateway (attach to VPC!) DHCP, EIP, ENIs Endpoints Peering Security Groups NACL NAT     Kubernetes and project talk. Cloud Analyzer: Django and Postgres system reporting Kubernetes from Scratch: https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/scratch/   Please leave us comments, feedback, or a review! 

It's been one year! How crazy is that? We dive into where we were when we started, where we're at now, and where we think we're going career and podcast wise! Join us for the discussion: Where we have gone the past year? Did we see ourselves going down this path? What did the first year of our podcast teach us? Is there anything this year that we hope we could've changed? Where do we see the podcast going? What primary technologies we want to work with in 2019 AWS – EC2 and S3 exam experiences   Next episode will be continuing our AWS series. Definitely tune in Sunday!

Hey everyone! Today we start to go over our experiences in studying for the AWS Solutions Architect exam, plus some catching up on Kubernetes and container stuff.    We then discuss the merits of having a cert versus just the foundations, and then circle back into what tripped us up on the exam.   Enjoy!

EXPLICIT LANGUAGE   Hey all! We were excited to start a new episode after the holiday, so this might not have been as clean and PG as we wanted ;)  Also, Ruby and Python discussion gets violent. BTW we don't use Emacs, and you shouldn't either :D    From Chris: See you next yea-- Mike and Phil: OMG SHUT UP.   

Today we had the honor and privilege to be joined by a prominent leader in Information Technology. Microsoft Partner, business owner, Sysadmin, husband, father, podcaster, and gamer, Paul Joyner has been in I.T. since before Exchange had years appended to it!    Today we discuss Paul's origin's into I.T., Hybrid Cloud and Pure Cloud solutions, managing the business and the technical side, automation through SaaS and tools, inspiration for the younger generation, and a tribute to the person that inspired The rollBak to start its beginnings.    Thank you Paul, it was truly a pleasure having you on today. We look forward to future endeavors and collaborations ;) 

Today we are truly privileged to have a special guest join us to discuss his experiences as a Cloud Systems Engineer. Kyle has a background in Linux administration, scripting, and automation. He is also well versed in public and private clouds. Welcome Kyle! Kyle's Origin Story: Linux experience started in middle school. Consulting for small business in High School   Favorite Distro: CentOS and Fedora Favorite cloud: OpenStack Favorite language: Golang Favorite webstack: NodeJS   Life as a remote Cloud Engineer   Public Cloud vs Private Cloud -- The Cost   Continuing Education: https://linuxacademy.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa6eh7gCkpPo5XXUDfygQQA   Spin it up and break it -- the best learning experience   We also dive into personal projects and future plans.   

In this episode, Chris butchers the intro, TWICE, and we had to start over :D  We then dive into Version Control, Configuration Management, Jenkins, get side tracked by containers, and then end with more Configuration Management. 

Wrapping up NetSec: Vulnerability Assessment, Reporting, and Malware Analysis additions. https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/debugger/index.shtml https://zeltser.com/fake-dns-tools-for-malware-analysis/ https://www.graylog.org/ Phil is learning JavaScript! https://www.udemy.com/the-web-developer-bootcamp/   We talk about learning and development experiences, off-topic nonsense, and other goodness. 

Pardon the server fans in the background ;)    NetSec! Phil's goes into details on his experiences with Firewalls and network security. Chris discusses malware analysis labs and penetration testing environments. Plus, vLANs, locking out end-users, and more!   Resources: https://www.fortinet.com/products/next-generation-firewall.html https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/cloudgoat-vulnerable-design-aws-environment/ https://www.vulnhub.com/ https://github.com/PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit http://pwnable.kr/play.php https://www.trustedsec.com/pentesters-framework/  

Episode today with tons of goodies. Mike goes over the new goals for the show. We then divulge into our Raspberry Pi tales: https://www.instructables.com/id/Use-Raspberry-Pi-3-As-Router/ https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole http://www.itpro.co.uk/mobile/21862/raspberry-pi-top-31-projects-to-try-yourself-1   The rest of the story was unplanned and total chaos! In a good way :D Linux & FreeBSD goodness, Solus, Microsoft, and more! 

Docker, Kubernetes, BETRAYAL? Oh my!  In this episode, we discuss what we've been involved with: Docker Compose and Kubernetes SELinux - Worth the hype? Chris is way off, but still right?  Amazon RDS and Elasticache Golang is the best lang Python 2 && Python 3 && Python 2.7 && Python 3.7 == INDENTATION ERROR Bash and Ansible make the world go 'round.  Reach out to us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/therollbak   Feel free to leave us a review or write in with some feedback. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-rollbak   We are proud patrons of: https://getsol.us/home/ https://level1techs.com https://sysadmintoday.com/

Java stuff https://www.udemy.com/java-the-complete-java-developer-course/ Inheritence talk, using cars as the example. Car Class -> Honda Class Car Class -> Ford Class Car class has 4 doors and 1 battery Ford has 2 doors, inherits 1 battery Honda has 3 batteries, inherits 4 doors Terraform Infrastructure provisioning tool Platform agnostic Chris isn't an expert yet ;P Visual C++ and Microsoft SQL Server Brushing up on C++ and playing with SQL Server Python and BeautifulSoup Fantasy Football stat modeling Etherium pricing alerts and actions Zabbix trades cryptocurrency Chris's environment: Windows 10 VM with Visual Studio building on remote Linux Server communicating with MS SQL Server running on Linux via Docker Solus Project Set out to repair Debian installation Loved the "second impression" Installed the OS to give it a go Did not use terminal to install any application or driver (First time ever!) Ikey Doherty, Solus founder, quit his job at Intel to pursue project full time. The rollBak is now a proud patron of Solus Project! We also proudly support Sysadmin Today and Level1Techs. https://getsol.us/home/ https://level1techs.com https://sysadmintoday.com/ Solus qualities: Rolling release Latest software packages Built for developers by developers It even works with Broadcom! w00t Development Environments Phil: Windows cause muh games ;D PyCharm and VS Code with Linux virtual machines. Chris: Windows 10 workstation with Visual Studio 2017, VS Code, and IntelliJ Solus workstation with IntelliJ, CLion, and Atom. Vim plugins https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline https://valloric.github.io/YouCompleteMe/ https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree https://github.com/flazz/vim-colorschemes Best of VIM: i to INSERT (enter text) Escape to go to navigation mode / to search (press 'n' to go to the next entry in your search) h go left j go down k go up l go right Control + b page up Control + f page down :set number show line numbers (include : ) :wq save and quit :q! quit without saving :w! save without quitting Chris sets his eyes on Software Engineering Phil aspires for SRE Goals make the world go 'round! Books! Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2 (Sorry, Amazon links were HUGE) What does SRE entail? Using software to solve I.T. problems. Range from advanced deployments and infrastructure to being a software architect. Heavy on programming, wide array of knowledge necessary too (Networking, database engines, operating systems). Phil brushing up on 1337 Networking https://www.gns3.com/ https://software.cisco.com/download/home VyOS https://vyos.io/ PacketTracer https://www.netacad.com/courses/packet-tracer   Please leave any feedback, concerns, or corrections on our review site! https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-rollbak

Today we go over our projects, fun programming facts, and Linux automation! There is also some AWS/Azure jealousy at the end ;) IT'S JUST unattended.xml AND virt-install!  Some fun links: https://www.icinga.com/ https://mmonit.com/ https://ocaml.org/ https://www.udemy.com/java-the-complete-java-developer-course/ https://www.terraform.io/ https://pypi.org/project/python-crontab/ https://therollbak.com https://twitter.com/therollbak  

Lightning Talk with The rollBak! Going in depth on some topics we've covered like DevOps, teaching yourself Computer Science, Goals and Success! Importance of Books DevOps Computer Science Tools Goals

Mike and Chris embrace the new form and dive deep into culture, hanging with your fellow engineers, working with the whole company, and staying hungry.   

Changes are a-coming!  "Change is good. Change is good. o_o "    Brainwashing aside, we're mixing up the formatting a bit. Every other week we are going to do a segment, potentially multiple part segments, and deep dives. Here we'll explore topics like personal projects and their progress, databases, software development, computer science, theory of computation, data-intensive applications, automation, and DevOps Philosophy.    Weeks between those segments will hold Lightning talks, tips, tricks, and other short bits of content to help you along the way.    Let us know if you have any questions and please let us know if you have any feedback!    Checkout our new series at https://therollbak.com

Crank up your speakers, because we have a new intro! We discuss the importance of monitoring, who's monitoring the monitors?! And, of course, we ramble randomly about rpm packages, Debian versus RedHat, compiling from source, Microsoft going Desktop as a Service (maybe???) and why people should(n't) be outraged about it. Also, please excuse the sparse but obnoxious typing during the episode. I was attempting to take better show notes but didn't save the file so it was wasted noise :( Feel free to leave us a review or write in with some feedback.   https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-rollbak