Catharina Celikel, Autor bei NETWAYS GmbH

Monthly Snap February 2023

von Catharina Celikel | Mrz 3, 2023 | NETWAYS

What was up in February?

Some of us went to conferences around the world, but most of us stayed in the cold but beautiful Nuremberg. And we wrote a lot of good articles for you!

Icinga Repository Subscription

What is the Icinga Repostiory subscription, and how can you get it? Chantal answered all the questions you might have regarding the Icinga Repository Subscription. Read all about it, and if you still have questions afterwards, Chantal provided a link to contact us!

GitLab @NETWAYS

Stefan wrote about the various ways for you to use GitLab and how we may be of assistance. Read about the Open Source tool and your possibilities regarding set-ups and the option of booking it as a service and avoid the hassle of finding storage space and doing updates etc. It is your choice, but if you need help deciding we can assist you!

Migration to the Icinga DB?

Christian wrote about migration to the Icinga DB and about the new architecture and web frontend of Icinga DB. He shared a link to the Webinar explaining what the Icinga DB is, and leaked the date for the upcoming Webinar, which will demonstrate a migration.

But that wasn`t all!

Bernd shared our journey towards the Open Source tool BookStack, Patrick wrote about tracking and fingerprinting in How I met your C2: Basic Operational Security for Defense and Offense, Apostolos wrote about the apprentices` latest project week in which they got to know the other departments, read about Johannes R. in our blog series NETWAYS stellt sich vor, and Katja asked if you are our new Online Shop Manager.

Then Lennart taught us about installing Icinga DB with the Icinga Installer, Chantal wrote about our NETWAYS Domino- Day, Saeid asked Why Python?, Philipp gave us News from go-check, Bernd introduced the App-launcher Raycast, Apostolos finds that the advantages of an apprenticeship as an adult over 30 definitely outweigh the disadvantages, In NETWAYS Chefs Stefan cooked gulasch in the slow-cooker, Katja shared a talk from the OSMC 2022 and from stackconf 2022 and told us to submit a talk for next years` conference, Leonie stated that our NWS portfolio is bursting with options for you! Read about it and test an app for 30 days for free. And, last but not least, our apprentices used their project week to create a game arcade-style for us!

I hope you found something of interest! If not: Please contact us with YOUR wishes. See you next month!

Header foto von George Hiles auf Unsplash

Catharina Celikel

Office Manager

Catharina unterstützt seit März 2016 unsere Abteilung Finance & Administration. Die gebürtige Norwegerin ist Fremdsprachenkorrespondentin für Englisch. Als Office Manager kümmert sie sich deshalb nicht nur um das Tagesgeschäft sondern übernimmt nebenbei zusätzlich einen Großteil der Übersetzungen. Privat ist der bekennende Bücherwurm am liebsten mit dem Fahrrad unterwegs.

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NETWAYS Chefs- Stefan kocht Gulasch im Slowcooker

von Catharina Celikel | Feb 24, 2023 | NETWAYS

This entry is part 15 of 15 in the series NETWAYS Chefs

In der NETWAYS Küche wird ständig gekocht und gebrutzelt. Oft duftet es im ganzen Büro nach Gewürzen aus der ganzen Welt. Und am Meisten wird die tolle Küche von Stefan genutzt. Diesmal hat er Rindergulasch gekocht, und direkt so viel, dass ganz viele Glückliche mitessen durften. Das besondere an dem Rezept, ist dass man das Fleisch nicht vorher anbraten muss, und dass es langsam über Nacht vor sich her köcheln kann. Willst du es auch nachkochen?

Du brauchst (für die XL Portion):

100 g Schmalz (oder Butterschmalz)
2 kg Zwiebeln (in Würfeln)
2 kg Rindergulasch (gerne durchwachsen, von der Wade)
4 EL Rotweinessig
500 ml Rinderfond
2 Knoblauchzehen, zerdrückt
2 TL Kümmel
2 Lorbeerblätter
4 EL Paprikapulver, edelsüß
100 g Tomatenmark
1 TL Salz
frisch gemahlener Pfeffer

Als „Geheimzutat“ für den Winter hat Stefan noch einen gehäuften Teelöffel „Fünf Gewürz Mischung“ dazugegeben.

( Zutaten: Szechuanpfeffer, Zimt, Nelken, Fenchel, Sternanis )

So geht`s:

Schmalz in einem ausreichend großen Topf erhitzen und Zwiebelwürfel darin bei mittlerer Hitze etwa 15 bis 20 Minuten goldbraun braten. Dabei gut beobachten und häufig umrühren, damit sie nicht anbrennen.
Zwiebeln in den Einsatz des Slowcookers geben. Rindfleisch in mundgerechte Stücke schneiden, obenauf legen.
Bodensatz im Zwiebeltopf mit Essig und Brühe kurz loskochen. Knoblauch, Kümmel, Lorbeerblatt, Tomatenmark und Paprika dazu geben und auflösen, salzen und pfeffern. Alles über Fleisch und Zwiebeln geben.
Auf Stufe LOW 10 bis 12 Stunden garen, bis das Fleisch ganz weich ist. Je nach Heizintensität des Topfes (Crock-Pot-Modelle sind notorisch schneller) reichen u.U. auch schon 8 bis 9 Stunden. Dann einfach warm halten bzw. wieder warm machen!

Dazu gab’s Knödel, Gurkensalat und Blaukraut.

Viel Spaß beim Nachkochen, und bis zum nächsten Mal!

Catharina Celikel

Office Manager

Catharina unterstützt seit März 2016 unsere Abteilung Finance & Administration. Die gebürtige Norwegerin ist Fremdsprachenkorrespondentin für Englisch. Als Office Manager kümmert sie sich deshalb nicht nur um das Tagesgeschäft sondern übernimmt nebenbei zusätzlich einen Großteil der Übersetzungen. Privat ist der bekennende Bücherwurm am liebsten mit dem Fahrrad unterwegs.

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Monthly Snap January 2023

von Catharina Celikel | Jan 31, 2023 | NETWAYS

How has the new year been treating you so far? @NETWAYS we had our annual meeting a few days ago, and are looking forward to all that awaits us this year!

We started the blog- year with some pretty interesting subjects, if you missed some of them here are a few of the highlights:

Happy new year 2023!

Our CEO Bernd started the year with an honest review of last year. He wrote about the impacts Covid (still) has, and of the war, but also of news in our portfolio and that we are confident that this will be a good year!

Application Management in Kubernetes

Markus O. taught us about huge amounts of YAML, and how to minimize repetition and to structure the YAML with Kustomize. He also went into Terraform and kpt and let us know his personal preferences.

20 years @NETWAYS!

in our blog series NETWAYS Anniversaries Katja congratulated Marius on his 20^th anniversary! Now that is definitely something to celebrate, and we are so happy that he is here!

What else did we have for you?

Valeria reported from the apprentices team-weekend, Martin told us what is new regarding Icinga and when the Icinga Camp will take place, Patrick recapped Emil- Andreas Siemes` talk as well as Satish Karunakaran`s talk from the OSMC 2022, Katja told you to submit your talk and take part in stackconf 2023 and shared a talk by Aliaksandr from last years` conference, Leonie urged us to do the Ares 12 upgrade since HWgroup warns of possible mistakes in the older version, Julia announced, that the Call for Papers for Icinga Camp is open, Nathaniel finished his apprenticeship more than six months ago and let us know how he is faring in his team, Markus W. taught us the basics of Icinga DB, Christian informed us of webinars on NETWAYS Shop products, Marc R. told us the advantages of using Squid with a proxy, Achim presented the great match Cloud Services and NWS- ID, , and last but not least, Katja let us know that our sales department has vacancies! Future account managers please apply with an e-mail to jobs@netways.de and join the NETWAYS family!

Which subjects would you prefer in future articles? Any particular tools or services you would like to know more about? Let us know what interests YOU, and we just might write about exactly that…

See you next month!

Catharina Celikel

Office Manager

Catharina unterstützt seit März 2016 unsere Abteilung Finance & Administration. Die gebürtige Norwegerin ist Fremdsprachenkorrespondentin für Englisch. Als Office Manager kümmert sie sich deshalb nicht nur um das Tagesgeschäft sondern übernimmt nebenbei zusätzlich einen Großteil der Übersetzungen. Privat ist der bekennende Bücherwurm am liebsten mit dem Fahrrad unterwegs.

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Monthly Snap December 2022

von Catharina Celikel | Jan 6, 2023 | NETWAYS

Happy new year everyone! 2022 is long gone but let us take a minute to remember the great month of December. December 2022 came with an all-seasons weather mix in Nuremberg, but I choose to remember the beautiful snowy days and forget about the rest! In December we also had our annual Christmas party- it was a blast and not something we are likely to forget about any time soon 😉

We also had some great blog articles for you! In case you missed some of them, here you go:

Our NETWAYS Cloud

Stefan let us in on the advantages of using our NETWAYS Cloud! He told us of the data protection, the flexible solutions regarding size and webinterface, and of course that you don`t sign up for a year or worse, you can delete your project at any time, and you will always have an overview of your costs in your account

NETWAYS Christmas party

2022 we were finally able to celebrate properly again! Our newest “family members” had no idea what awaited them, but our events-team had truly outdone themselves this year! It was such a great event for all of us, and we are already looking forward to the next one! Julia wrote about the party and shared loads of photos!

Starface Cloud

As a Starface partner, we offer hardware and licences für your company. But now you can use Starface without the hardware via Cloud! Read Christians article on the subject and contact us for more information.

What else have we got for you?

Achim started the month with presenting the NWS ID, Katja wrote about various celebrations in various cultures within NETWAYS in Wir feiern das ganze Jahr, Lorenz let us know that we now offer Prometheus, Lennart explained how he uses PROXMOX, Christoph explained our corporate structure,

Mathias reviewed his first year at NETWAYS, Get to know Marc Z. in our blog series NETWAYS stellt sich vor, Katja opened the OSMC archives for this year`s talks, Daniel let us in on the secrets of Advent of Code,

Christoph taught us how to build a Christmas pyramid with Raspberry PI, Leonie told us how (and why) to use NWS docs, and then Katja reviewed the year 2022 with lots of great photos!

Did you miss something? Were you hoping for an article on a specific subject? If so, do not hesitate to contact us.

See you next month!

Catharina Celikel

Office Manager

Catharina unterstützt seit März 2016 unsere Abteilung Finance & Administration. Die gebürtige Norwegerin ist Fremdsprachenkorrespondentin für Englisch. Als Office Manager kümmert sie sich deshalb nicht nur um das Tagesgeschäft sondern übernimmt nebenbei zusätzlich einen Großteil der Übersetzungen. Privat ist der bekennende Bücherwurm am liebsten mit dem Fahrrad unterwegs.

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Monthly Snap November 2022

von Catharina Celikel | Dez 9, 2022 | NETWAYS

November is traditionally the month of the Open Source Monitoring Conference, and this year was no exception. As always it was an extraordinary event for the community and definitely a highlight in 2022. So naturally, many of our blogs this month revolve around the OSMC. (Such as when Marc R., David and Lorenz recapped Day 1, 2 and 3 of the conference!). But we have some other gems for you too!

Kubernetes release!

The release of Kubernetes v1.24 and v1.25 brings many changes with it, and Justin provided a thorough description of the biggest changes. He also recommends creating a test cluster before updating.

Graylog news

Daniel told us about the current changes regarding Graylog and taught us about the reasons for Opensearch and which version is supported by Graylog.

NWS Data Centers – your concerns

In these difficult times we take your concerns seriously, and Stefan explained how we secure your data and how even electricity outages are prevented.

What else have we got for you?

Get to know Jonas and Jan in our Blog Series NETWAYS stellt sich vor, Michael pulled a talk from stackconf from the archives for us, Katja let us know that we now offer trainings on Prometheus! Dirk informed us of an Update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Leapp, Martin explained what the Icinga Developer Subscription is, Christian planned Prometheus Webinars for 2023, Daniel P. talked about automating Icinga for Windows with Ansible, Markus O. explained options for Ansible Continuous Deployment without AWX/ Tower/ AAP and last, but not least, Katja baked for us in our blog series NETWAYS Chefs!

Did you miss something? Were you hoping for an article on a specific subject? If so, do not hesitate to contact us.

See you next month!

Header-photo by Ales Krivec on Unsplash

Catharina Celikel

Office Manager

Catharina unterstützt seit März 2016 unsere Abteilung Finance & Administration. Die gebürtige Norwegerin ist Fremdsprachenkorrespondentin für Englisch. Als Office Manager kümmert sie sich deshalb nicht nur um das Tagesgeschäft sondern übernimmt nebenbei zusätzlich einen Großteil der Übersetzungen. Privat ist der bekennende Bücherwurm am liebsten mit dem Fahrrad unterwegs.

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