About 8 months ago I posted about how I run some applications in containers so that they stay nicely contained. I have refined and changed a few things about how I do this recently and so felt it was time for an update.

I recently realized it has been over 6 months since I have used a VM on my workstation. Previously I like many developers used VMs for various development tasks. The change hasn’t be in my usage of cloud based VMs, I continue to do that as needed and appropriate. The change is that I use containers.

I have recently finished building an LXD image for doing integration tests of Mojo. I did this because I wanted to be able to reliably test the changes to Mojo that I was making. A repeatable, standard environment that can run set of integration tests fits the bill.

I use weechat for much of the day and have issue regular repetitive commands periodically. If you are in the same situation you may find the queue plugin I recently modified to be useful.

The days where systems administrators do no development are gone. Just as developers leverage cloud infrastructure and tooling to deploy services, sysadmins develop code to automate their infrastructure and to fill the feature gaps that they are uniquely positioned to see.