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Oct 1, 2018

Import DigitalOcean DNS Records to Terraform

For the following step I assume that you have Terraform already configured and the DigitalOcean provider retrieves the authentication token from the DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN environment variable. If you have an old provider version you’ll need to upgrade the provider using terraform init -upgrade as the capability was added to provider as part of pull request #71 which is included in v1.0.0. First we need to lookup the key id for the DNS resource record that we want to import through the DigitalOcean REST API:

Digitalocean

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Digitalocean

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Jan 29, 2017

Offener Brief zur Digital Roadmap Austria

Gesendet am 29. Jänner 2017 an ikt@bka.gv.at. Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, Ich lebe in Wien und bin seit über 15 Jahren in der IKT-Branche tätig und derzeit Geschäftsführer eines noch sehr kleinen IKT-Unternehmens mit Sitz in Wien und habe mir die Digital Roadmap Austria der Bundesregierung angesehen. Ich finde…

Austria

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Austria

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Oct 18, 2015

Think Different. Mac @ IBM

It’s good to see that the Mac at IBM program is well and good. Fletcher Previn, VP of Workplace-as-a-Service, gave a presentation about the current state of the deployment at the JAMF Nation User Conference. To date, IBM has already deployed 30,000 MacBooks to IBMers; when an employee’s laptop is…

Apple

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Think Different. Mac @ IBM
Think Different. Mac @ IBM
Apple

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Oct 14, 2015

Do Open Source Advocates agree with Oracle?

I have to say that at one point I really liked the GPL license and the idea behind it. I always thought that it is weird to call it viral. A few years ago the Software Freedom Law Center published an opinion that the WordPress themes are also covered by…

Open Source

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Do Open Source Advocates agree with Oracle?
Do Open Source Advocates agree with Oracle?
Open Source

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Sep 23, 2015

Token-based Two-Factor authentication

Tokens, U2F, and the real world — The use of two-factor authentication for personal use, even for online banking, never really caught on. The only device that was at least slightly promising was the YubiKey, but there wasn’t really much adoption for it as the various operation modes all had their fair share of issues. HOTP was…

Security

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Token-based Two-Factor authentication
Token-based Two-Factor authentication
Security

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Sep 6, 2015

From procrastination to results

James Surowiecki wrote in a very inspiring article titled “What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?”: “There’s something comforting about this story: even Nobel-winning economists procrastinate! Many of us go through life with an array of undone tasks, large and small, nibbling at our conscience.” Task lists never really worked…

Productivity

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Productivity

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Aug 22, 2015

DevOps with IBM Business Monitor and Cognos BI

In one of my recent projects we were using Business Monitor and the embedded Cognos BI. During the implementation of the automated installation and configuration scripts it became apparent that not everything was scriptable, as I would’ve expected from my past experience with IBM products. Configuration of certain Cognos parameters…

Dev Ops

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Dev Ops

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Jul 24, 2015

Building web applications for the cloud

Asynchronous event-driven web applications — Photo by Barcelona Supercomputing Center as published on Flickr / CC BY-ND 2.0 The cloud means different things to different people, but we all agree that it for sure isn’t like your own data center. You don’t control the hardware or virtualization layer, you mostly don’t control the operating system…

Web Development

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Building web applications for the cloud
Building web applications for the cloud
Web Development

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Software Engineer with an interest in Cloud Platforms and DevOps

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