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This episode reviews the recent OggCamp 2026 event in Manchester, which attracted around 200 attendees. Also, Jon details his work as Chair of the Board of Trustees for PCrefurb, a charity based in Glossop that combats digital poverty in Derbyshire and Tameside by refurbishing corporate hardware donations and providing networking infrastructure and training.
Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep106sn/
In this episode, Al, Jon, and Jerry catch up on some major life changes, dive deep into the world of Model Context Protocols (MCP), and discuss the practicalities of moving into IT consultancy. Plus, we explore why Docker might be your best friend for CLI tools and how to keep your AWS environment secure with temporary tokens.
Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep105sn/
In this episode, Jon Spriggs flies solo to tackle the “scheduling gremlins” affecting the team before diving deep into two powerful tools for the modern SysAdmin: Server Spec for infrastructure unit testing and MCP Servers for integrating LLMs into your monitoring workflow.
Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep104sn/
In this episode we return after a couple of years in hiatus to talk about what we’ve been up to since we last recorded, including: LLMs; the differences between platform, DevOps, and sysadmin; and red tape.
Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep102sn/
Podcast listener “Please hold the line”
We are sorry to say, life has taken over and that the show is on Hiatus, but we will be back soon at some point.
In this episode we talk about Puppet, Proxmox and GlusterFS
Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/101sn/
In this episode we talk about Terraform Modules, Public and Private Endpoints. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep099sn/
In this episode we talk about Containers, Jerry’s new gig, and running containers with Kubernetes and other technologies. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep098sn/
In this episode we do a deep dive into Observability, we talk about structured logging, devops and SRE, and oncall and alert fatigue. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep097sn/
We talk about Netdata and Let's Encrypt; Gitea, Drone and self-hosting; and whether to go SaaS or Open Source.
In this episode, Al, Jon, Stu, and Jerry go over their previous years predictions for 2021, and make new predictions for 2022. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep095sn/
In this episode we talk about monitoring and distributed tracing, eBPF and Terragrunt, and we also have a few podcast recommendations. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep094sn/
In this episode we are all back on the podcast we talk a deep dive in Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) along side this we talk about how to get in to programming. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep093sn/
In this episode we talk about Puppet and configuration management, Unit Testing bash scripts, and the differences between Cloud Native Services and Infrastructure as a Service. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep092sn/
This episode Jon brought Nick “Mohclips” into the podcast to talk to us about some of the things he does. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep091sn/
In this episode we talk about Terraform and Azure AKS Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep090sn/
In this episode we talk about career paths, CI/CD, learning, and being OK. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep089sn/
The Admin Admin guys host their first predictions show Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep088sn/
In this bumper feedback episode we talk about line endings in files, OpenStack, secrets management, and protecting your network.
The whole crew is back together for the first time in a while, talking about: Git commit hooks, Windows as a development environment, cloud network firewalls, and Azure DevOps.
Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep086sn/
In this episode, without Jerry this time, we talk about Object Orientated Programming, provisioning machines with Terraform, Ansible, and Azure DevOps, and how to build new machines. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep085sn/
In this episode, without Al, who sadly couldn’t make the show this time, we talk about Hashistack, Git, and what we’ve been up to. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep084sn/
In this episode, we talk about Terraform, provisioning servers in Azure, Ansible best practices, and what we’ve been up to recently. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep083sn/
In this episode, we welcome Stu to our regular line up, plus we have a general catch up about what we’ve been doing at work, CI/CD and Ansible, networking, and working from home. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep082sn/
With the guys all back together, they talk about the Fully Automated Install (FAI) system, Kubernetes, and their recent projects. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep081sn/
In this episode, Jerry and Jon (no Al this time!) talk to Stuart about monitoring with Prometheus, Meshed Networks with Nebula, and SMART and Configuration Management. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep080sn/
In this episode, Al and Jon (no Jerry this time, sadly) have a conversation with Reggie from The Coolest Nerds in the Room Podcast. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep79sn/
In this show we discuss Oggcamp 2019 and we have Gary on the show to talk bout changing jobs from a sysadmin to DevOps Engineer Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep078sn/
In this show we have Lucy McGrother as a guest and we talk all about monitoring. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep77sn/
In this show we answer listener questions, we read and comment on your feedback, and we talk about consolidating services! Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep76sn/
In this show we read your feedback, we answer your questions and talk about what we’ve been up to! Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep75sn/