Hi, I'm Rob Hogarth

Sysadmin, IT Guru and Author

Rob Hogarth

Hi, I'm Rob Hogarth

Sysadmin, IT Guru and Author

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Hi I’m Rob Hogarth,

I’m a sysadmin/IT guru and I’ve been tapping away at keyboards in a career spanning two millenium. A certified greybeard.

Every now and again I write interesting thoughts and ideas, as well as what I think are helpful techincal pieces. This is a place to come and read it all.

My Latest Posts:

Perfectly Sized Windows Disks

One thing that has always bugged me, is that a Windows VM with a 50Gb disk actually appears as 49.9GB. While it’s entirely cosmetic, wouldn’t it be nice to have pefectly sized disks. Disks the actual size we specify, not that slightly smaller size you actually get.

Creating the world's most capable DevOps Pipeline Agent

Lately, I’ve been working on supporting an awesome microservices project. For various reasons, we have code in Azure DevOps, an on-premise Kubernetes cluster and the project is written in Java utilising Apache Camel.