Admin Admin Podcast #105 – The one without the musician

This episode reviews the recent OggCamp 2026 event in Manchester, which attracted around 200 attendees. Also, Jon details his work as Chair of the Board of Trustees for PCrefurb, a charity based in Glossop that combats digital poverty in Derbyshire and Tameside by refurbishing corporate hardware donations and providing networking infrastructure and training. Show Notes: […]

In this episode, Al, Jon, and Jerry catch up on some major life changes, dive deep into the world of Model Context Protocols (MCP), and discuss the practicalities of moving into IT consultancy. Plus, we explore why Docker might be your best friend for CLI tools and how to keep your AWS environment secure with […]

In this episode, Jon Spriggs flies solo to tackle the “scheduling gremlins” affecting the team before diving deep into two powerful tools for the modern SysAdmin: Server Spec for infrastructure unit testing and MCP Servers for integrating LLMs into your monitoring workflow. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep104sn/

In this episode we … Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep103sn/

In this episode we return after a couple of years in hiatus to talk about what we’ve been up to since we last recorded, including: LLMs; the differences between platform, DevOps, and sysadmin; and red tape. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep102sn/  

Podcast listener “Please hold the line” We are sorry to say, life has taken over and that the show is on Hiatus, but we will be back soon at some point.

In this episode we talk about Puppet, Proxmox and GlusterFS Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/101sn/

We made it to episode 100! Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/sn100

In this episode we talk about Terraform Modules, Public and Private Endpoints. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep099sn/

In this episode we talk about Containers, Jerry’s new gig, and running containers with Kubernetes and other technologies. Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep098sn/