Power DevOps Substack

It Compiles, It Scrapes, It Talks To Db2

Three Things For IBM i, From One Pile Of Patches

May 22

1

The Missing Piece: Teaching Go About IBM i

Two Weeks On A Compiler. So You Don't Have To.

May 8

1

1

Some Assembly Required: A Prometheus Stack for IBM Power

The Allen Key Is In The Box. The Box Is This Newsletter.

May 1

April 2026

Prometheus Didn't Want to Come to AIX

I Brought It Anyway

Apr 24

3

Modern monitoring for AIX and VIOS?

Yes, it is possible!

Apr 17

2

March 2026

It was silent here last month.

Here is why.

Mar 27

2

Only Ansible? This is boring!

I want to use Terraform to deploy my LPARs!

Mar 13

February 2026

What should I do with my mksysb if I have no NIM?

I have a small environment and no NIM server!

Feb 27

1

Make System Backup!

The best feature, that AIX has and Linux is missing

Feb 20

So many NIM resources!

Why don't use mksysb?

Feb 13

1

Playbooks to create NIM resources on IBM AIX

Last Friday I wrote about NIM clients, lpp_sources, SPOTs, and many other resources

Feb 11

2 playbooks to automate usual AIX NIM tasks

But not every task!

Feb 6

1