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James (@purpleidea)

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See mastodon.social/@purpleidea devops/golang/mentoring/config mgmt hacker, mgmtconfig architect, and physiologist. hi Building m9rx.com and mgmtconfig.com formerly AWS, Red Hat, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University

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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Quick demo showing a programmatic series of SSH jumps from one host to another, and then another with #mgmtconfig What would you build with this? youtube.com/watch?v=EIms...
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New Blog Post: Faster DNF updates purpleidea.com/blog/2026/10...
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here's a demo of the #mgmtconfig wireguard module. No central secret store required, private keys never leave the machine, and rotation happens in under 1000ms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z91T... (Feedback welcome please! If you or your company is interested in this, please reach out.)
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mgmt wireguard module
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Quick demo showing the new "async" and "realize" meta parameters in #mgmtconfig. Powerful features for building powerful tools. This isn't just "configuration management" anymore. youtube.com/watch?v=63u4...
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mgmt meta:async and meta:realize
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Quick demo showing cpu hot plug and hot unplug with #mgmtconfig. It's *so* fast... youtube.com/watch?v=vJum...
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mgmt delta cpu
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Jordan wrote some great new docs for us! #mgmtconfig
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Here's a short video (4min) showing the new remote execution resource in #mgmtconfig. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gqD...
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mgmt remote execution as a resource
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Have a look at what you can do in #mgmtconfig with streams of power usage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HWN... Reach out to m9rx.com to get rolling with this kind of cool magic!
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mgmt power monitoring as a stream
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I just released #mgmtconfig version 1.1.0 This a major new release that is incredibly polished. Documentation site has been updated with new functions and resources: mgmtconfig.com/docs/ Downloads and release notes here: github.com/purpleidea/m...
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Documentation
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
New Blog Post: "My perspectives on AI/LLMs" My analysis and experiences using AI/LLMs purpleidea.com/blog/2026/06...
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My perspectives on AI/LLMs - https://purpleidea.com/
My analysis and experiences using AI/LLMs
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New Blog Post: "The switch as an ordinary GNU/Linux server" Here's my review of the new Linux switchdev "Novarq tactical-1000" switch. purpleidea.com/blog/2026/04...
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The switch as an ordinary GNU/Linux server - https://purpleidea.com/
I can't believe it's been over 11 years
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Some big news! #mgmtconfig has been approved as a recipient of the "NGI0 Commons Fund" from the "NLnet foundation". mastodon.social/@purpleidea/... There will be money to pay some of you to complete upstream tasks. If you're interested please let us know. nlnet.nl/project/mgmt...
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NLnet; mgmt config
mgmt is a fast and modern automation tool for managing services and servers. It lets users model how that infrastructure should look, behave and react over time. Instead of separating provisioning, configuration management, and orchestration, it unifies these concepts and lets you build elegant distributed systems while also running as a distributed system. It can manage anything from home labs to full production infrastructure and helps organizations reduce operational overhead while repatriating workloads. Within this grant the project will among others work on performance enhancements, add new models, function error locations and lsp/syntax highlighting, improve documentation as well as making it easier to import automation rules from external resources.
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I just released #mgmtconfig version 1.0.2 Don't let the small version numbers fool you, there are a lot of goodies here! github.com/purpleidea/m...
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Release 1.0.2 · purpleidea/mgmt
Full release notes at: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/raw/refs/heads/master/docs/release-notes/1.0.2 for all the details. Verify the signatures of all packages before you use them. The signing ...
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Big News: Ten years of #mgmtconfig Version 1.0.0 now released I've started a company called "m9rx" We have a crazy deal on our website right now, so please share the news and sign-up today! purpleidea.com/blog/2025/09... github.com/purpleidea/m... m9rx.com/news/10-year...
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10 years of mgmt - https://purpleidea.com/
I can't believe it's been 10 years
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
New Blog Post: Better git status purpleidea.com/blog/2025/08... (Avoid needing to scroll git status.)
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Better git status - https://purpleidea.com/
Avoid needing to scroll git status
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
New Blog Post: Running etcd (and #mgmtconfig) over SSH. purpleidea.com/blog/2025/05... (Contains a sneaky debugging challenge and the solution!)
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Running etcd over SSH - https://purpleidea.com/
Using authorized_keys options to securely tunnel
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
My #mgmtconfig talk is TODAY at #CfgMgmtCamp at 14:50 sharp! (B.Con room) I'll be giving a different kind of talk today. Less hardcore internals, more "real-production, boring use-cases". Come early for the pre-show! cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2025/ta...
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Mgmt Config: Running in Production and Best Practices CfgMgmtCamp 2025 Ghent
Mgmt is a real-time automation tool that is fast and safe. Is this running in production? What's taken so long? It was important for us to be better than legacy tools, not just a 1:1 replacement. I be...
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I just released #mgmtconfig version 0.0.27 This is a pretty giant release, so have a look at the release notes: github.com/purpleidea/m... Binaries are available here: github.com/purpleidea/m...
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mgmt/docs/release-notes/0.0.27 at master · purpleidea/mgmt
Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management! - purpleidea/mgmt
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
New Blog Post: Working around an iPXE issue (not syncing, kernel panic) purpleidea.com/blog/2025/01...
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James (@purpleidea) @purpleidea.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I'm primarily over at mastodon.social/@purpleidea because open source tooling is a better way to go, but I might use this as a primarily write-only feed (like I do with twitter/X now) for folks interested in getting notifications about new blog posts, and other more notable events.
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1.71K Posts, 472 Following, 662 Followers · devops/golang/mentoring/config mgmt hacker, mgmtconfig architect, and physiologist. hi formerly AWS, Red Hat, Montreal MNI, McGill University
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