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4 podcasts to follow

4 podcasts to listen to while commuting (in no particular order): DevOps cafè  : hosted monthly, features great guests and packs a tremendous amount of valuable information. Warm up by listening to a great episode with with Tom Limoncelli MagPipe Talk show  : I discovered this gem because it recently featured Martin Fowler The Changelog : more targeted towards developers than the previous two. Make sure you listen to the recent episodes with Yehuda Katx and Mitchell Hashimoto Hansel Minutes . Usually this one is mostly of interest to Windows people. Useful if one wants to keep an eye on the ther side of the pond or catch the occasional high-level talk

One-liner libvirt KVM guest

Boot and install a new KVM guest with guest agent support with this super simple libvirt one-liner (great for scripts and CI deployments). Tested on a Centos 7.1 host creating a Centos 7.1 guest from a basic Kickstart file. Parameters should be quite self-explanatory, in any case here's the documentation for virt-install . Important : remember to change the unix socket path on the last line. File: virt-install_auto.sh -------------------------- virt-install --name "guest01" --memory 2048 -l http://your.ris.server/ris/centos71 -x "ks=http://your.ris.server/ris/ks.cfg console=ttyS0" --disk size=8,pool=your_pool,bus=virtio,format=qcow2 -w default --graphics vnc --channel unix,mode=bind,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/guest01.agent,target_type=virtio,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0