SouthEast LinuxFest 2026: Recap
SouthEast Linux Fest has a different feel than most conferences I attend. It is less trade show, more reunion. You run into the...
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Learning to Play TTRPGs | SouthEast LinuxFest 2026
I ran a hands-on introduction to tabletop role playing games at SouthEast LinuxFest for a room full of Linux nerds, most of whom...
Fixing Fedora’s Packaging Pipeline | Fedora Podcast Episode 055
Getting a package into Fedora is more than writing a spec file. There’s a review queue, a sponsorship process, and a contribution...
CIQ at Open Source Summit 2026: Minneapolis Recap
CIQ at Open Source Summit 2026: Minneapolis Recap I spent three days on the expo floor at Open Source Summit 2026 in Minneapolis...
Community Days 2026: Trip Report
Community Days 2026 was a different kind of conference experience for me. No booth to staff, no talk to deliver, no social media...
Why RLC Pro? Enterprise Linux Built on Rocky
Why RLC Pro? Enterprise Linux Built on Rocky I wrote this piece for CIQ making the case for RLC Pro, what it is, who it serves,...
Home Lab in 2026: Is It Still Worth It? | The IT Guy Show Episode 023
Home Lab in 2026: Is It Still Worth It? | The IT Guy Show Episode 023 Josh from Keep It Techie joins me for a conversation about...
What Is RLC+? Rocky Linux with GPU Drivers Built In
What Is RLC+? Rocky Linux with GPU Drivers Built In I wrote this explainer for CIQ introducing RLC+, the free, GPU-ready tier that...
AI and the Human in the Loop | IT Guy Show Ep. 022
AI and the Human in the Loop: What Actually Gets Replaced | IT Guy Show Ep. 022 Episode 22 of The IT Guy Show is a milestone for...
Why Rocky Linux? Enterprise Linux Built to Last
Why Rocky Linux? Enterprise Linux Built to Last I wrote this piece for CIQ as a foundational explainer on Rocky Linux, covering...
LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Worth the Trip
LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Worth the Trip I made it to Bellingham this spring for LinuxFest Northwest, and I get why this event has...
Bootc in the Wild | Fedora Podcast Ep. 054
Bootc in Production: What It Actually Looks Like | Fedora Podcast Ep. 054 Episode 54 of the Fedora Podcast is out, and this one...
GPU-Ready in Minutes: Running AI on Azure with RLC Pro AI
GPU-Ready in Minutes: Running AI on Azure with RLC Pro AI Getting from the Azure Marketplace to actual inference used to mean a...
Deploy RLC Pro on Google Cloud Marketplace
Deploy RLC Pro on Google Cloud Marketplace I wrote this deployment guide for CIQ, walking through how to get RLC Pro up and...
Deploy RLC Pro on AWS Marketplace
Deploy RLC Pro on AWS Marketplace I wrote this guide for CIQ covering how to get RLC Pro running on AWS, from the Marketplace...
Flock to Fedora 2026: What to Expect in Prague
Flock to Fedora 2026: What to Expect in Prague Flock to Fedora 2026 is heading back to Prague this June, and on episode 53 of the...
Deploy RLC Pro on Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Deploy RLC Pro on Microsoft Azure Marketplace I wrote this deployment guide for CIQ covering how to get RLC Pro running on...
From Fresh Install to AI Inference in Under 4 Minutes
From Fresh Install to AI Inference in Under 4 Minutes Getting a GPU box ready for AI workloads is way harder than it should be,...
CIQ Portal Launch: Deploy Enterprise Linux Your Way
CIQ Portal Is Live: Access and Deploy CIQ Products on Your Own Terms I wrote the launch post announcing the CIQ portal going live...
Migrate from RHEL to RLC Pro Without Re-Architecting
How to Migrate from RHEL to RLC Pro Without Re-Architecting I wrote this guide for CIQ covering how to convert a running RHEL...
CIQ at SCaLE 23x: Trip Report and Recap
CIQ at SCaLE 23x: Trip Report I co-wrote this recap with Michael Young and R. Leigh Hennig covering CIQ’s presence at SCaLE 23x in...
What Enterprise Linux Should Actually Be | CIQ Webinar
What Enterprise Linux Support Actually Means (And Why It Matters) Rocky Linux is everywhere, and for good reason. But community is...
From Bash to Burnout | My SCaLE 23 Talk
Tech Burnout Recovery: What I Shared at SCaLE 23 This one was personal. I gave this talk at SCaLE 23 in Pasadena as part of Open...
From Bash to Burnout: My SCaLE 23x Talk
From Bash to Burnout: My SCaLE 23x Talk I gave this talk at SCaLE 23x in Pasadena as part of Open Source Career Day, and it is...
Proactive Linux Security: How RLC Hardened Goes Beyond Patching
Proactive Linux Security: How RLC Hardened Goes Beyond Patching Reactive security is table stakes at this point, and it is not...
Sovereign AI Infrastructure: Training, Inference, and Exploration in One Workflow
Sovereign AI Infrastructure: Training, Inference, and Exploration in One Workflow This was my first CIQ webinar and I walked away...
TuxCare Enterprise Support Explainer Series
TuxCare Enterprise Support Vertical Explainer Series These three short videos were part of a vertical marketing campaign I...
Creating Impactful “What’s New” Presentations for Product Marketing Teams
Every six months or so, I found myself in the same spot. A new release was out, the features were solid, the engineering work was...
How to Install Nvidia Drivers on AlmaLinux
How to Install Nvidia Drivers on AlmaLinux I hosted this short tutorial for the official AlmaLinux YouTube channel covering how to...
Breqwatr Customer Story: TuxCare Radar
Breqwatr Customer Story: Ending Scanner Overload with TuxCare Radar I produced this customer story for TuxCare, including the...
How to Submit a Pull Request to AlmaLinux on GitHub
How to Start Contributing to AlmaLinux by Submitting a Pull Request I hosted this short tutorial for the official AlmaLinux...
Ending the Linux Tradeoff: Enterprise Features on Community Linux
I hosted this solo webinar for TuxCare making the case that you do not actually have to choose between community Linux and...
AlmaLinux Enterprise Webinar: TuxCare and Benny Vasquez
AlmaLinux Enterprise Support: TuxCare Webinar with Benny Vasquez I hosted this webinar for TuxCare with Benny Vasquez, chair of...
Session 0 in The Last Parsec – Savage Worlds Solo RPG
Session 0 in The Last Parsec- Savage Worlds Solo RPG When I decided to play a solo Savage Worlds campaign, I wasn’t just adding...
TuxCare Product Videos: What I Covered as PMM
During my time as Product Marketing Manager at TuxCare, I owned the product narrative across their Linux security and lifecycle...
Run AI Locally on Fedora with Ollama: Live Ops 005
Run AI Locally on Fedora with Ollama: Live Ops 005 I wanted to run AI locally on Fedora using an Nvidia GPU I had sitting in my...
Building a Golden Image | Live Ops 003
Building a Golden Image | Live Ops 003 The goal was simple: build a reusable Fedora golden image homelab template I can clone...
RHEL Hypervisor Homelab Setup: Live Ops 003
RHEL Hypervisor Homelab Setup: Live Ops 003 A Dell PowerEdge R730 that’s been sitting in the rack collecting dust finally has a...
WordPress Migration to Homelab: Live Ops 002
WordPress Migration to Homelab: Live Ops 002 The WordPress migration homelab project that started as a quick detour turned into a...
Rebuilding My Matrix Server From Scratch (Live Ops 001)
Self-Hosted Matrix Server Rebuild: Live Ops 001 I fired up a livestream to do something I’ve been putting off way too long:...
Mastering User and Group Management on Linux
As a long-time SysAdmin, one of the core tasks I’ve always had to tackle is managing users and groups on Linux systems. Whether...
Apple Vision Pro | IT Guy’s first impressions
The Apple Vision Pro stands to be one of the next innovations that changes how we use technology. Is it there yet? Not quite, but...
Getting Started with Linux and I.T. Careers
I get asked on a regular basis how I got my start in Linux; over the last couple of days, I put together my most comprehensive...
Build a golden image for your RHEL homelab with Image Builder
In How I built a homelab with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), I laid out my plans for revamping my home lab using as many Red Hat...
5 ways to make an impact on your IT community
In 5 changes to help grow your IT career, I discussed establishing a learning mindset and forming daily habits to build your...
5 changes to help grow your IT career
Change is an intentional, methodical process. You don’t need to wait for a specific date, like New Year’s Day, to resolve to...
How I built a homelab with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
As a recovering sysadmin, the last thing I want is to end up being technical support at home. I often tell people that I wish I...
Containers: One Size Does Not Fit All
There, I said it! Containers won’t fix every application, they won’t replace your server farm, and sadly they won’t do your laundry.
2 tools to manage infrastructure sprawl with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
For a systems administrator, it seems like every project brings new complexity, more servers, and more sprawl to manage. I will...
Overcoming vulnerabilities with live kernel patching in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5
IT operations folks strive to not only maximize uptime but also keep systems patched. These might seem like competing goals, but...
Ansible Beginner’s Guide: Automate the Pain Away
Way back in the day, humanity created computers to help make our lives easier. In a lot of ways, they have; in others, it’s made...
Lessons I Learned While Attending a Hybrid Meeting
The approach to work has changed several times over the past three or so years. We all keep hoping to find that “new normal,” and...
Using Red Hat’s support tool at the command line to solve real-world problems
Before coming to Red Hat, I spent nearly a decade as a Systems Administrator. After all that time, I’m still continually...
How to install RHEL a new way with image builder
I am sure many sysadmins can relate to this scenario: You get into work on Monday morning, attend your staff meeting, and log into...
What is a technical marketing manager?
From creating technical labs, blogs, and videos to pairing customers’ problems with product features, technical marketers never...
Beginner’s Guide: How To Get Started With Element & Matrix
These days it can be overwhelming to select the best software to use because now more than ever, choices are abundant when it...
The Origin of Eric the IT Guy
I was recently asked, “Why call yourself the IT Guy? Why not just use your name?” Great question! In the professional world, we...
Laying a Productive Foundation with Todoist
Where do you get your tasks from? For me, it’s meetings, household chores, ongoing projects, random lists, IMs, Emails, forum...
Game Sphere 13: Terminator Resistance
I have loved video games my entire life. I got started on a Super Nintendo playing Super Mario Brothers and Super Mario Kart. That...
Sudo Vulnerability Discovered: How to Protect Your System From Baron Samedi
We tend to associate free with good. That’s not the case though when what is free is unauthorized root-level access to your Linux...
Sudo Show 12: GitOps for Sysadmins
Episode 12 of the Sudo Show is the one where Brandon and I dig into GitOps, and I think it’s one of our better technical episodes...
Sudo Show 11: Managing Linux Desktops at Scale with Noah Chelliah
This episode means a lot to me. We brought on Noah Chelliah from the Ask Noah Show and Destination Linux, and honestly, Noah is...
Sudo Show 8: Our First Live Ask Me Anything
We finally pulled off our first live event for the show. Episode 8 of the Sudo Show is the recap of our first ever AMA, where...
Sudo Show 10: Open Source Desktop Migrations
Episode 10 of the Sudo Show is a retrospective, and it’s a good one. Brandon had a hand in one of the largest corporate Windows to...
Sudo Show 9: Storage Technologies Deep Dive
Episode 9 of the Sudo Show is a bonus episode that exists because one question during our AMA turned into way more than we...
Sudo Show 7: Our First Interview, GitLab’s Greg Myers
This one’s special to me. Episode 7 of the Sudo Show was our first ever on air interview, and we brought on Greg Myers, a support...
Sudo Show 6: Elements of Cloud Native Architecture
Sudo Show episode 6 continues our cloud arc by digging into how applications actually got to cloud native architecture, starting...
Sudo Show 5: Open Source Cloud Management Tools
Sudo Show episode 5 kicked off a new arc on cloud architecture, and we used it to dig into open source cloud management tools with...
Sudo Show 4: How to Build Your Education and Career
Back in 2020, Brandon and I sat down for Sudo Show episode 4, where we wrapped up our “getting started” arc with a conversation...
Sudo Show 03: DevOps and Automation
Episode three, aired July 23, 2020, tackles one of the most misunderstood terms in IT. Brandon and I both came at DevOps from...
Sudo Show Episode 2: Getting Started With Open Source
Episode two of the Sudo Show, and we threw out most of our original outline because the community conversation after episode one...
Interview on Linux Spotlight 55
Rocco was one of the people I instantly connected with in the open source community. His values and his love of the people in open...
Sudo Show Episode 1: What Is Enterprise Open Source?
This is where the Sudo Show actually started. Episode one of a podcast that had been two years in the making, finally out on the...
The Sudo Show: A New DLN Podcast Launches June 2020
This is the trailer that started it all. In June 2020, Brandon Johnson and I launched the Sudo Show on the Destination Linux...
Launching the IT Guy
I have some very exciting news to share with you all! My name is Eric The IT Guy and I am a recovering Systems Administrator! I...
Vision for the IT Guy
I spent over seven years in IT before I really started to understand the breadth of the industry. Technology gets a bad rap for...
DevOps KC: Communication in an Open Company
I had the pleasure of speaking at the Kansas City DevOps Meetup in downtown Kansas City! It was kind of like a coming home party....
SELF2019: Busting Open Source Security Myths
I gave my Busting Open Source Security Myths talk at DevSecOps Days Denver to a packed out auditorium. If was so well received, I...
SELF2019: Getting Started with Open Source
This talk defined the voice of the IT Guy for me. This was the moment when the Sudo Show got its wings, when I realized that I was...
SELF2019: GitLab Takes you from Idea to Production
South East Linux Fest 2019 was an amazing test of the IT Guy…not as a brand but as the person I wanted to be in my career. I gave...
DevOps Days Des Moines: Communication in an Open Company
Getting started in my career, I never imagined I would work in sales or go speak at conferences! I was very nervous and I think...
The IT Guy’s House
Hey all! I am starting a new open source “project”: my next home! Please help me by making recommendations and helping me build...
Return of the First Attempt
We got a single test episode before going back to the drawing board. After months of networking, planning, seeing what else is out...
The First Attempt
Some time ago, our favorite IT Guy published a couple of test episodes. Its funny to look back at these episodes in light of the...
Ask Noah Show Debut
Waaaaay back on Episode 26 of the Ask Noah Show, The IT Guy was being formed an molded. Now, a little over a year later, we are...
Chillin’ on the Ask Noah Show
I got to join Noah Chelliah on the Ask Noah Show to continue my coverage of Peertube. It was a great chat, took a couple of calls,...
The Case for Peertube
I had the pleasure to head out to Lawrence, KS to talk at the local LUG (Linux Users Group)! Today’s topic? Peertube and the...
The Big Interview
Sometimes, a dream just comes together. Sometimes its a dream that you didn’t even know you had! I have spent 10 years in the IT...
LAS2018: Day 4
The conference now seems like SO long ago! It was 4 crazy-packed days (plus 2 on the road) but it would not be overstating...
LAS2018: Day 3
Oops! The downside to staying up pretty much all night talking about FOSS, life, and everything else under the sun is that the...
LAS2018: Day 2
I know, I know this is a lot later than I promised. That is what happens when you go to a conference then come back to the real...
Hello World
Hey ya’ll! This has been a long time coming! This IT Guy has a lot on his plate and figured it would be beneficial to chronicle...
LAS2018: Day 1
IT IS HERE! Libre Application Summit 2018. This is the first IT conference I have attended since a VMware Summit in 2012. Not only...
LAS2018: Travel Day
Kansas City, Missouri to Denver Colorado, 1 Interstate, 609 miles, 8 hours of podcasts… Nothing but rain! However, the nice thing...
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