Martin Konicek
Who am I
I am a self-learner who was always interested in electronics and computers. Currently I switch my focus from Site Reliability Engineer to more of DevOps role which is AWS related. I am helping my company to develop Serverless aplications in Python and create complex cloudformation templates and whole environment. I am very proficient in infrastructure development. I use GIT, CI/CD pipelines and other developer support tools often. Currently I am learning to be AWS Cloud Architect Asociate – I have already finished practitioner exam.
Stories

Linux
- Xubuntu and VirtualBox – time and clipboard fix
- GIT: How to move subfolder between repositories
- Linux – How to download whole music playlist from Youtube
- How to decrease disk usage by journal
- Xinetd – forward port to another host
- How to restart linux service when icmp / ping unreachable (OpenVPN tip)
- AWS Lambda – reboot instance when HTTP unreachable for free
- Time synchronization and Chrony
- Nmcli and IPv6
- VirtualBox: How to simply mount shared folders
AWS
Martin's technologies
Good
VMWare (creating VMs, managing VMs, adding memory, cpus, remote console) |
SaltStack (pull mode), Fabric (switched to ansible) |
Windows 10 (advanced user, registry, backup, recovery, but really just user) |
Routing (mainly static), Squid (regex routing), Application deployment (Tomcat) |
Data centre (climatization, UPS, racking, HW evidence, etc…) |
PHP (conditionals, loops, classes, regular expressions, templates - smarty) |
Awk (few basic commands, print etc.), Sed (good regex knowledge), Vim |
jBoss (Java), Java memory limits settings (Xms, etc.), JDK installation (also ansible automated) from tars |
Bacula, Docker |
Better
Apache (mod_rewrite, mod_ssl, reverse proxy), ntp (chrony, ntpdate), Bacula, Prometheus |
AWS (Cloudwatch, AWS Cli, Clouformation, EC2, S3, Lambda, Boto) |
Python 2/3 (some OOP knowledge, pip) |
Computer networks (TCP/IP, Ethernet, IPv4, subnetting, VLANs) |
Bash (debug, conditionals, loops, one-liners, medium difficulty scripts) |
VoIP (rtp, sip), datacenter management (cooling, humanity, fire safety), VirtualBox |
Hardware (Oracle, Dell servers, storages - IBM, KVM concentrator) |
Storage (iSCSI - connection to VMWare), parity disks, |
Monitoring (Icinga, Nagios) |
Best
Linux (Ubuntu, Redhat, derivatives...), SystemD (including writing own units, journalctl, rescue unit, etc.), SSH |
Ansible (including writing plug-ins, roles, etc., really extensive knowledge) |
RAID (SW - md utils, HW), HW maintanance (iLO, iDRAC, memory upgrades) |
OpenVPN (tun, tap, point-to-point, subnet, certificate generation, udp, tcp) |
MySQL replication (master/slave), galera, SQL (joins, subqueries), MariaDB |
Virtualization (KVM, XEN, virt-install combined with kickstart), libvirt |
Volume management (LVM, volume groups, logical volumes for KVM, etc...) |
IPTables (in/output, forward, nat, dnat, log, accept, drop, reject), expect (mainly in python, alse bash, not much in original tcl/tk), ... |