Chris Collins

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Ewa Beach, Hawaii

Chris Collins is an SRE at Red Hat and an OpenSource.com Correspondent with a passion for automation, container orchestration and the ecosystems around them, and likes to recreate enterprise-grade technology at home for fun. Prior to working at Red Hat, he spent thirteen years with Duke University, variously as a Linux systems administrator, web hosting architecture and team lead, and an automation engineer. In his free time, Chris enjoys Dwarf Fortress, brewing beer, woodworking, and being a general-purpose geek.

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Authored Content

Deploy InfluxDB and Grafana on Kubernetes to collect Twitter stats

Monitor your Twitter stats with a Python script, InfluxDB, and Grafana running in Kubernetes or OKD.

Create a Kubernetes cron job in OKD

Get started with OKD, a Kubernetes distribution formerly known as OpenShift Origin.

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Maximize your Ansible skills with these 7 how-tos

A collection of playbooks, guides, and tutorials to maximize your Ansible skills.

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Learn about alternatives to Docker in this All Things Open 2018 Lightning Talk.

8 ways to contribute to open source when you have no time

What containers can teach us about DevOps

The use of containers supports the three pillars of DevOps practices: flow, feedback, and continual experimentation and learning.

Performance made easy with Linux containers

Building tiny container images

Here are 5 ways to optimize Linux container size and build small images.

Authored Comments

clcollins

3 Jun 2020

Turn your Raspberry Pi homelab into a network filesystem

I haven't looked into trying to spin down the drives, but it's a good thought. I would be interested in hearing what you, or others who may be reading this, end up doing to save power using USB disks with Raspberry Pis.

clcollins

25 May 2020

How Cloud-init can be used for your Raspberry Pi homelab

That's a great idea! Thanks for sharing. It's always good to see how other people do things.