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2020

Packer: Building images on Google Cloud
·991 words·5 mins
Packer GCP Google Cloud Cloud
Installing the software we need to run our website or tools, can take some time to complete. This isn’t ideal when our deployments are time sensitive, like when we need to scale up the web server pool to handle that sudden interest in your latest line of fancy socks.
SSH: Multiplexing
·703 words·4 mins
SSH Multiplexing
What is it? # Multiplexing, sometimes referred to as muxing, is a way of making use of one connection for a number of signals. The internet connection you’re reading this on may have been multiplexed at some stage along its physical route to your building or local communications tower and can used to reduce the overall cost of having to lay multiple cables to endpoints.

2019

SSH: Tunneling to remote servers
·631 words·3 mins
SSH Tunnel
When creating our infrastructure, either in the cloud or on prem, we often usually need a way to connect to machines running behind the scenes to do things, such as upgrades or fixing problems.