It has been quite a while since there has been a post here. The last one being in 2019, a few months before the pandemic shut it all down for a while (assuming 3+ years is a “while”).

We have been having virtual events for most of that time, but not publishing any information. I guess I was not in the mood to keep it updated, but I had to do some migration work this week, so it seems like a good time to get back to it.

Continuing in the Docker vein, we built up a more complicated Docker configuration based on the previous meeting prep work. Success across the board and we completed earlier than expected. Time for other topics and future talk chat. We will continue with Docker for a bit, maybe even do a full day event.

A couple of us also attended a local Rancher OS event downtown. It was a good event, the examples were easy to do and the tech resource for the talk really knew what he was talking about. We may have to do a Rancher night to build on the container concepts. That will depend on who wants to do a deeper dive, as this will take the entire meeting time and may have to be continued on your own or at the following meeting.

So we had a Docker night to get back to the topic of containerization.

I have wanted to get back to containers as a working topic for a while, but had no good example to work with. Building demo environments are great for covering the basics, but it never gets beyond “Look what we can do” to a practical usage case for the group.

During my search for a useful project, I found a small tutorial on getting an environment up and running using a Docker container, Docker, Hugo, and Asciidoctor to create a website with Asciidoc based posts. Since this is effectively what I wanted to do back when I was using Pelican¹ for the site. It might help solve the lingering things I wanted to work out post conversion as well.

There have been a dearth of posts on here for way too many reasons:

• Renovations
• No free time
• Forget how to get the build environment running
• The list goes on…

The entire list is rather long and boring really, and should not have been allowed to affect the site information. I’ll try doing better with it.

Meanwhile, back in ovSAGE land…

We have been having meetings every month, despite the lack of posts. There were a few retro-compute nights with a simulated Altair 8800 and a CP/M refresher (for those who used it before). All new to those who had not. We even played Zork.

UPDATE: Not so fast…

We did have the room, but we were cautioned that the hvac is not working, so in a fit of sanity, we will go to Tim’s again.

Now that I actually posted that the meeting would be at the local donut shop, I get an email yesterday informing me that we have the room for tomorrow night. The universe is out to prove me wrong :)