Fabricio Jiménez Morales
DevOps Engineer · Physics PhD
Welcome! I work with Linux, Containers, Kubernetes and learn about Cloud-native technologies. I code with Python and am interested in solving problems with AI and Machine Learning. I used to work with big colliders like CERN’s LHC. Don’t hesitate to contact me for collaborations or work opportunities.
Security is one (if not the) main priority of many Linux administrators, and now more than ever this is the case in the context of the large number of systems we typically manage today: containerized systems running in clusters, cloud microservices, ephemeral environments, and so on. We talk a lot about the essentials: good password, key and secrets management, firewall policies, encryption, and similar topics; which is obviously critical. But I also believe that threats can be mitigated through small habits, in the commands we do daily. ...
About a half a life ago, I had my first Linux lesson, and the best so far. I was a freshman at uni and started learning Linux at Laboratorio Docente de Computación. After a few weeks there, the first important homework was a seemingly simple one: create a new user (your user) in a Linux machine using the terminal. But there’s a catch (see what I’m doing here?): no adduser or useradd scripts allowed. I could bring my notes but not my laptop. ...