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Developing a job scheduler in go

Table of contents History Introduction Source Documentation Tests Packages Overview Cron Task Job Orchestrator History Date Changes 2024/10/04 Initial publication Introduction For some tools I am working on related to Citrix and NetScaler, I needed the capability to schedule jobs or commands at a fixed time or at an interval. While technically possible to use “cron” on Linux/BSD-based operating systems, and “scheduled tasks” on Windows, I wanted to provide the capability through the tool itself when running as a daemon or windows service.

Friday, October 4, 2024 Read

Deploying NetScaler VPX on Proxmox VE

Table of Contents History Introduction Deployment Create an “empty” virtual machine Modify hardware Increase hard disk size Add a secondary hard disk Modify options Convert to template Startup History Date Changes 2024/09/09 Initial publication 2024/09/12 Added informational message about memory requirements. (thanks Morten Kallesøe) 2024/09/12 Added information message about cpu requirements. Introduction There is a lot of information available in the official NetScaler VPX deployment documentation. However, one hypervisor in specific is missing: Proxmox.

Monday, September 9, 2024 Read

Day 000 - Overview

Introduction I’ve finally decided to renew my focus on blogging about my adventures in IT. As it is only human to forget things over time, it is essential to have a good habit of documenting pretty much everything. As we are all living our busy lives, bringing up children, having hobbies outside of tech or just because “life happened”, it’s also a habit I’ve neglected for some time. So, what is the purpose of all this, you might ask?

Tuesday, January 3, 2023 Read

Day 002 - Packer integration with 1Password

Example files for today can be found in my Continuous Learning repository at https://github.com/jantytgat/continuouslearning/tree/main/2023/day002 Introduction In college, I started tinkering with Debian (Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 - Woody) as my first introduction to other operating systems besides MS-DOS and Windows. The use of deb-packages through apt-get felt so natural that I never got around to using Red Hat or Fedora in a sensible way (yum always felt broken).

Thursday, January 5, 2023 Read

Day 001 - Setting expectations

Introduction Welcome to day 1 of of my continuous learning track for 2023. As mentioned in the overview for 2023, I have a bunch of topics I want to learn more about. Of course, these expectations don’t come out of the blue, they apply either directly or indirectly to projects and ideas I’ve been working on. As you can read on the homepage of my blog, I specialize in management of NetScaler and Fortinet appliances. Products from both vendors generally require quite a bit of knowledge to operate efficiently, especially in the managed services arena. As I run these products in my homelab as well, I try to tinker with them as much as possible because I obviously don’t know everything. The list below is obviously just an initial starting point, as there will be many other topics to explore as a sidetrack.

Wednesday, January 4, 2023 Read

Managing a Hugo theme using git submodules

Introduction For this Hugo-powered website, I decided to use the Toha theme, available on Github. Although the documentation has a great “Getting started” guide, I was missing some steps on how to upgrade a theme to its current version. Following some comments, apparently this is not something that is done often, unless there are significant updates in either functionality or layout. I tend to disagree, so I want to make sure I have the correct steps at hand.

Friday, March 25, 2022 Read