Posts Tagged ‘APT’

Python script dependencies

03Oct24

TL;DR ‘–break-system-packages’ sounds scary, but (after some careful evaluation) is likely to be the right way to go for infrastructure automation, at least until uv is ready for production. Python venvs seem to be what we’re expected to use, but introduce additional complexity and associated fragility, which seems to make them a poor choice for […]


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Which Java?

14Aug20

Or should that be: TL;DR Practices for installing and maintaining Java have evolved over time, which can lead to tension between teams who are set in a particular way, and other teams who see that as backward. The present state of the art is not to have Java on hosts at all, and to containerise […]


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Upgrading Docker Redux

13Aug15

It’s less than two months since I last wrote about Upgrading Docker, but things have changed again. New repos Part of my problem last time was that the apt repos had quietly moved from HTTP to HTTPS. This time around the repos have more visibly moved, bringing with them a new install target ‘docker-engine’, and the […]


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Eyeballs on security monitoring – rods and cones

10Nov11

A few weeks ago I attended a summit on advanced persistent threats (APTs)[1] run by on of the major security vendors. So that people could speak freely there it used Chatham House Rules, so sadly I can’t attribute the piece of insight that I’m going to share here. About five or six years ago I wrote a security monitoring […]


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