Ultra-Lab - Why?

Hi there! You might ask yourself why there is another blog. Another blog about IT stuff. Could this guy not just use something else? Blog somewhere else? Well, let's just say "Because I can."
I always wondered if I could build a place for the stuff that I found, built, figured out or experienced. So what will you, dear reader, find here?

Me

I'm in IT since a decade now in a professional manner. Sometimes more, sometimes less. To be honest - describing myself is something where other people are much better, much more nuanced. I used to work for a service provider before, now I'm with a Vendor.

Infrastructure

Maybe one day we'll not care about that anymore. But there are still a lot of cases where either you still have to manage the stuff that get's you connected or access to your apps. So even if this is not my key area, sometimes I need to tinker with that as well. Looking at you, networking **raises fist**

Automation

There are so many vendors, products and approaches to this...I'll mostly focus on "How to", not every technical detail. Usually I'm not that deep into this and in my day-to-day job I need to figure out how to get the bigger picture done. Yesterday. You know the drill.

Interesting stuff that I stumbled across

Sometime I wonder where and how I know about a topic. Usually I remember that I've read something somewhere sometime. Sometimes it works to just Google it 238479 times with the expectation that the search returns what you're looking for, but more often than not the right words are not there. And thus I'll try to capture interesting bits here as well. I just need to figure out how to preserve other blogs from varnishing into the nothingness that consists out of "forgot to pay for the domain", "I deleted my infrastructure by accident", or simply some misconfiguration and our best friends, 404, 500 and/or 503. (Well, or "Certificate invalid", but at least you can work around that matter).