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James @purpleidea.bsky.social · Dec 11
I'm primarily over at mastodon.social/@purpleidea because open source tooling is a better way to go, but I might use this as a primarily write-only feed (like I do with twitter/X now) for folks interested in getting notifications about new blog posts, and other more notable events.
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1.71K Posts, 472 Following, 662 Followers · devops/golang/mentoring/config mgmt hacker, mgmtconfig architect, and physiologist. hi formerly AWS, Red Hat, Montreal MNI, McGill University
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James @purpleidea.bsky.social · 13d
Big News:

Ten years of #mgmtconfig

Version 1.0.0 now released

I've started a company called "m9rx"

We have a crazy deal on our website right now, so please share the news and sign-up today!

purpleidea.com/blog/2025/09...

github.com/purpleidea/m...

m9rx.com/news/10-year...
10 years of mgmt - https://purpleidea.com/
I can't believe it's been 10 years
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James @purpleidea.bsky.social · Aug 5
New Blog Post:

Better git status

purpleidea.com/blog/2025/08...

(Avoid needing to scroll git status.)
Better git status - https://purpleidea.com/
Avoid needing to scroll git status
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James @purpleidea.bsky.social · May 14
New Blog Post:

Running etcd (and #mgmtconfig) over SSH.

purpleidea.com/blog/2025/05...

(Contains a sneaky debugging challenge and the solution!)
Running etcd over SSH - https://purpleidea.com/
Using authorized_keys options to securely tunnel
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James @purpleidea.bsky.social · Feb 3
My #mgmtconfig talk is TODAY at #CfgMgmtCamp at 14:50 sharp! (B.Con room)

I'll be giving a different kind of talk today. Less hardcore internals, more "real-production, boring use-cases".

Come early for the pre-show!

cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2025/ta...
Mgmt Config: Running in Production and Best Practices CfgMgmtCamp 2025 Ghent
Mgmt is a real-time automation tool that is fast and safe. Is this running in production? What's taken so long? It was important for us to be better than legacy tools, not just a 1:1 replacement. I be...
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James @purpleidea.bsky.social · Jan 31
I just released #mgmtconfig version 0.0.27

This is a pretty giant release, so have a look at the release notes:

github.com/purpleidea/m...

Binaries are available here:

github.com/purpleidea/m...
mgmt/docs/release-notes/0.0.27 at master · purpleidea/mgmt
Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management! - purpleidea/mgmt
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James @purpleidea.bsky.social · Jan 24
New Blog Post:

Working around an iPXE issue
(not syncing, kernel panic)

purpleidea.com/blog/2025/01...
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James @purpleidea.bsky.social · Dec 11
I'm primarily over at mastodon.social/@purpleidea because open source tooling is a better way to go, but I might use this as a primarily write-only feed (like I do with twitter/X now) for folks interested in getting notifications about new blog posts, and other more notable events.
James Just James (@[email protected])
1.71K Posts, 472 Following, 662 Followers · devops/golang/mentoring/config mgmt hacker, mgmtconfig architect, and physiologist. hi formerly AWS, Red Hat, Montreal MNI, McGill University
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