About this episode
Matt and Ben discuss running processes in production, including daemonization and system configuration challenges.
Matt and Ben discuss running in production; from running processes in screen to battling systemd configuration files. Ben sketches out daemonization rituals while Matt channels Tolkien to explain process hierarchies. Our hosts discover that Ansible playbooks are just bash scripts with better PR, and everyone still Googles journalctl syntax.
People in this episode
Hosts: Matt, Ben
Topics covered
- production
- process management
- daemonization
- system configuration
- Ansible
- process hierarchies
Keywords
- production
- systemd
- daemonization
- Ansible
- process hierarchies
- journalctl
- bash scripts
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Ansible, systemd, bash, journalctl
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