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README.md

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+# m2.nz
+
+Hugo    
+Theme: https://github.com/vaga/hugo-theme-m10c

config.toml

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 baseURL = 'https://m2.nz/'
 languageCode = 'en-us'
-title = 'Daniel Mason'
+title = 'm2.nz'
 
 theme = "m10c"
 
+[markup.goldmark.renderer]
+  unsafe = true
+  
 [menu]
   [[menu.main]]
     identifier = "home"
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     name = "Tags"
     url = "/tags/"
     weight = 2
-#  [[menu.main]]
+  [[menu.main]]
-#    identifier = "about"
+    identifier = "about"
-#    name = "About"
+    name = "CV"
-#    url = "/about/"
+    url = "/cv/"
-#    weight = 3
+    weight = 3
 
 [params]
   author = "Daniel Mason"
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   favicon = "/favicon.ico"
 
   [[params.social]]
-    icon = "gitlab"
+    icon = "git-pull-request"
     name = "GitLab"
-    url = "https://gitlab.com/idanoo"
+    url = "https://git.m2.nz/idanoo"
+  [[params.social]]
+    icon = "send"
+    name = "Mastodon"
+    url = "https://mastodon.nz/@idanoo"
+  [[params.social]]
+    icon = "camera"
+    name = "Pixelfed"
+    url = "https://pixelfed.nz/idanoo"
+  [[params.social]]
+    icon = "message-square"
+    name = "Matrix"
+    url = "https://matrix.to/#/@idanoo:mtrx.nz"
 
-  [params.style]
+[params.style]
-    darkestColor = "#242930"
+  darkestColor = "#242930"
-    darkColor = "#353b43"
+  darkColor = "#353b43"
-    lightColor = "#afbac4"
+  lightColor = "#afbac4"
-    lightestColor = "#ffffff"
+  lightestColor = "#ffffff"
-    primaryColor = "#57cc8a"
+  primaryColor = "#57cc8a"

content/cv.md

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+title = "Employment History"
+
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+
+<div style="display: flex;">
+    <div style="flex-direction: row; margin-right: 20px">
+        <img alt="ezyVet Logo" title="ezyVet Logo" src="/ezyvet_logo.png">
+    </div>
+    <div style="flex-direction: row">
+        <h3 style="margin-top: 5px">ezyVet</h3>
+        <h4 style="margin-top:-16px; color: #afbac4">Site Reliability Engineer</h4>
+        <p style="margin-top:-20px;">August 2019 - Current</p>
+    </div>
+</div>
+
+My role at ezyVet is primarily focused on improving performance and response time across the full stack from PHP, MySQL and ElasticSearch improvements to optimizing AWS usage and cost.
+
+- Pushing for latest versions of services to keep frameworks up to date and utilize any performance improvements (PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis upgrades)
+- Building automation pipelines through GitLab CI
+- Experience building a cross-platform Go application utilizing Websockets with AWS API Gateway and SQS/SNS/DynamoDB/Lambda/Terraform
+- Creating a full docker development environment for engineers to improve development workflows
+- Reducing RDS load and improving SQL query response time via query restructuring to make better use of compound indexes and foreign keys
+- Rebuilding Elasticsearch clusters to improve redundancy and response time with optimised indexes
+- Writing custom service monitoring tools in Go that interface directly with Docker, ElasticSearch and PHP-FPM
+- Optimising MySQL parameter groups to get the most out of each instance
+
+<br/>
+<div style="display: flex;">
+    <div style="flex-direction: row; margin-right: 20px; margin-left: 5px">
+        <img alt="Catalyst IT Logo" width="90" title="Catalyst IT Logo" src="/catalyst_logo.png">
+    </div>
+    <div style="flex-direction: row">
+        <h3 style="margin-top: 5px">Catalyst IT</h3>
+        <h4 style="margin-top:-16px; color: #afbac4">Devops Engineer</h4>
+        <p style="margin-top:-20px;">October 2018 - August 2019</p>
+    </div>
+</div>
+
+At Catalyst, I worked directly with several large corporate clients doing routine patching, performance improvements and general BAU. While primarily configuring CI/CD pipelines for full automated tested and deployments, I also gained experience with helm chart deployments into Kubernetes clusters hosted on OpenStack.I have also had the opportunity to gain more experience working with Puppet, Ansible and GitLab CI.
+
+<br/>
+<div style="display: flex;">
+    <div style="flex-direction: row; margin-right: 20px">
+        <img alt="ezyVet Logo" title="ezyVet Logo" src="/ezyvet_logo.png">
+    </div>
+    <div style="flex-direction: row">
+        <h3 style="margin-top: 5px">ezyVet</h3>
+        <h4 style="margin-top:-16px; color: #afbac4">Cloud Environment and Application Engineer</h4>
+        <p style="margin-top:-20px;">August 2017 - October 2018</p>
+    </div>
+</div>
+
+At ezyVet, I was primarily in charge of reviewing and merging code into our production environment as well as being our in-house DevOps/Infrastructure person. I occasionally did development work as well. In this position I gained vast experience in multiple areas as outlined below.
+
+The position currently included the following responsibilities:
+- Setting up and improving our CI/CD processes.
+- Maintaining and constantly improving our environment. (AWS/Terraform)
+- Setting up custom alerts / metrics with Cloudwatch & Grafana.
+- Responding proactively to the above alerts to fix potential issues.
+- Heavily involved in rolling out new technologies to our stack.
+- Revision, escalation and resolution of tickets and other critical issues.
+- Mentored Junior Developers through their induction into ezyVet.
+
+DevOps:
+- AWS: Consistently Improving our infrastructure to be efficient and reliable
+- Linux: Daily experience with Debian, Ubuntu and Arch.
+- CI / CD: Setting up and maintaining GitLab runners to run our Unit Tests / Automatic deploy pipelines inside docker containers.
+- Packer/Chef/Vagrant: Building custom AMI images for AWS & Vagrant for our development machines.
+- Terraform: Assisted migration of our AWS environments to code.
+- Virtualization: Setting up Vagrant / Virtual Box environments that mock our production environment.
+
+Programming:
+- PHP: Building small features and day-to-day bug fixes as well.
+- MySQL.
+- Shell / Bash: Created custom scripts to achieve specific goals.
+- Python / Node.js: Lambda functions in serverless.
+- HTML / CSS / JS / jQuery.
+
+Management:
+- Code Review: In charge of reviewing all code before it gets merged in to our production branches.
+- JIRA / Confluence / Freshdesk: Primarily used JIRA for ticket-tracking and Confluence for In-house documentation.
+- Mentoring: I have taken on several junior developers over the 2 years to train them and assist them in becoming familiar with out code-base and work-flow.
+
+<br/>
+<div style="display: flex;">
+    <div style="flex-direction: row; margin-right: 20px">
+        <img alt="ezyVet Logo" title="ezyVet Logo" src="/ezyvet_logo.png">
+    </div>
+    <div style="flex-direction: row">
+        <h3 style="margin-top: 5px">ezyVet</h3>
+        <h4 style="margin-top:-16px; color: #afbac4">Full Stack Developer</h4>
+        <p style="margin-top:-20px;">March 2016 - August 2017</p>
+    </div>
+</div>
+  	
+
+Focused on building new features and improving our cloud environment. Primarily working in PHP.

content/posts/proxmox_rm_recovery.md

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+title = "Recovering from a root 'rm' and why you need backups"
+tags = ["recovery", "backup", "proxmox"]
+date = "2021-02-06"
+description = "test"
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+
+Last week I was finally getting around to fixing my backup tooling and validating the recovery procedures. I thought it would be a good idea to have rolling nightly backups on a secondary ZFS pool with weekly syncs to an external disk. I ended up using this exact command to purge the rolling backups:
+
+> `$ find ${BACKUP_FOLDER}/* -mtime +${DAYS_TO_KEEP} -exec rm {} \;`
+
+Before we go any further, I want to point out that I was using the variable `${BACKUP_DIR}`, not `${BACKUP_FOLDER}`.  
+Can you see where this is going? Yeah.. I didn't pick that up before running my new majestic backup script. Half an hour later I came back to pages of ssh logs resembling `/bin/rm: command not found`. Oops. I instantly knew what had happened, I'd completely written off my Proxmox host and I was lucky it removed the `/bin/rm` binary before removing any actual data.
+
+Further investigation showed that I'd wiped most of /bin and the system was barely usable, I still had rsync.. yay! I quickly shutdown all of my containers/vms and rsync'd `/etc` to my primary ZFS cluster before rebooting to a fresh Proxmox install. After reformatting my root drive and reinstalling from scratch, I copied `/etc/pve/lxc` and  
+`/etc/pve/qemu-sever` back into place, ran zpool import `{data,storage}` and gave it one more reboot.
+
+I have never been so relieved to check and see all of my containers booting up back to their normal state. There was one or two other small things I had to fix up post-install such as reinstall `nfs-kernel-server` and several other packages. Overal I was pretty lucky I could copy my container configs before reinstalling and total downtime was under an hour.
+
+### Backups are important
+
+**Test your backups.**
+
+Don't get caught out and expect everything to be there when you really need it.