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Merging Pillars in SaltStack
Merging or joining Pillars in SaltStack is supported but somewhat limited. It took me some time to work out a clean solution to support a specific manipulation so to make this easier, I am going to...
WD MyCloud 2T NAS Review
I purchased a Seagate Central 2T NAS 5 months ago, for a low cost home media center solution. It worked reasonably well considering the low ~US130 cost although, I had ongoing issues with firmware ...
Load Balancing and Sticky Sessions by URL Parameter
To be able to mimic our production workload in testing, we had to come with a low cost solution to load balance HTTP traffic between few application servers. In addition to that, for the first (ini...