Chris Collins

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Ewa Beach, Hawaii

Chris Collins is an SRE at Red Hat and an OpenSource.com Correspondent with a passion for automation, container orchestration and the ecosystems around them, and likes to recreate enterprise-grade technology at home for fun. Prior to working at Red Hat, he spent thirteen years with Duke University, variously as a Linux systems administrator, web hosting architecture and team lead, and an automation engineer. In his free time, Chris enjoys Dwarf Fortress, brewing beer, woodworking, and being a general-purpose geek.

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Authored Content

Monitor your home's temperature and humidity with Raspberry Pis and Prometheus

Instrument a Prometheus application with Python on Raspberry Pis to collect temperature sensor data.

Set up temperature sensors in your home with a Raspberry Pi

Find out how hot your house is with a simple home Internet of Things project.

What you need to know about security policies

Learn about protecting your personal computer, server, and cloud systems with SELinux, Kubernetes pod security, and firewalls.

Run Prometheus at home in a container

Keep tabs on your home network by setting up a Prometheus container image.

How I build my personal website using containers with a Makefile

Simplify container management by combining the commands to build, test, and deploy a project in a Makefile.

How Kubernetes became the solution for migrating legacy applications

Explore the Kubernetes ecosystem in 2021

This downloadable guide is full of helpful tutorials to get SREs and sysadmins comfortable using Kubernetes.

Contributed Content

Announcing the Opensource.com Correspondent program

Top authors on Opensource.com have new levels of access, support, and exclusive opportunities.

Announcing the All Things Open 2018 lightning talk line-up

Don't miss these rapid-fire talks about containers, AI, Istio, Blockchain, Raspberry Pi, and more.

Authored Cheat Sheets and Downloads

Ship captain sailing the Kubernetes seas

Running Kubernetes on your Raspberry Pi homelab

By Chris Collins

Building a homelab has become increasingly accessible thanks to the affordability and versatility of the Raspberry Pi single-board computer. There are thousands of things you…

Authored Comments

clcollins

15 Jul 2020

Use this script to find a Raspberry Pi on your network

Thanks Simon, I was copying and pasting from my own test script when I wrote the article, and must have must have missed that! I'll get the article updated.

clcollins

29 Jun 2020

A minimalist Mac terminal for Linux fans

This is great Lisa, thanks for sharing! I like your Makefile approach!