About Me

I'm Thanh Nguyen a systems integration engineer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. I've worked at UCSD for 25+ years starting out with endpoint and desktop support. Then I moved over to server management integrating Windows Servers to Microsoft's Active Directory. Shortly after that, I moved to Linux and have been a system administrating Linux since.

In the past few years, my main interests are in containers. I started using Docker to replace virtual machines with containers for services such as web servers. Then I replaced my "infrastructure" type services such as DNS and DHCP virtual machines with containers. This made replicating my "infrastructure" quick and easy. I did not have to spend endless hours rebuilding and reconfiguring the VMs. My containers worked great and were easily redeployed and replicated when needing to change hardware.

Currently, I've delved more into Kubernetes where I can get my containers to the point of "always online" and easy scalability. So today, I spend a lot of time with Kubernetes!

The topics and notes here are utilities and tech software I use currently. They are work-in-progress so some might be incomplete or not present but is planned.