Admin, deployment and automation

System Administration, Deployment, Automation, Ops, and DevOps

Bare metal cloud-init

On using a Debian ‘cloud’ image and cloud-init on a ‘bare-metal’ host for fast deployment.

Real life SystemD timers

Most blog entries on SystemD timers give trivial samples. This article takes a different approach and provides the full details of two examples of using SystemD timers that are in active use on my systems.

Docker network: LAN to container

When using Docker to containerize internal services like Samba, LLMNR, or mDNS a.k.a Bonjour one may find that the standard Docker model of using specific unicast ports forwards, is insufficient.

Pi Unbound: The gift of DoT

Keeping your DNS queries from your local network to public DNS servers private in transit by using DNS over TLS on a Raspberry Pi is ridiculously easy.

Public Pi backyard camera (6)

A short talk / presentation about using the Raspberry Pi as a public backyard camera (e.g. live streamed or time lagged snapshots of a bird feeder).

A more Windows-centric approach (4)

A Windows-centric approach to creating a Windows and Linux hybrid environment for developers.

Ubuntu cloud images on Hyper-V

The official Ubuntu images that are built for Azure/Hyper-V really are only compatible with Hyper-V on Azure, but there is a solution…

Resetting Nextcloud

You may realize that you really wish you could start the Nextcloud instance from scratch without the hassle of a reinstalling.

Linux network monitoring

Linux network monitoring presentation using munin and nagios circa 2006

Automating a personal 'cloud' infrastructure (2)

How Daniel uses Ansible to develop, test, and deploy his own mail servers, calendar/addressbook, websites, git archive server, and more.

Sysadmin & DevOps (6)

Tasks in deployment, system administration, and DevOps

Windows and Linux (10)

Combining Windows and Linux by hosting Windows on Linux or Linux on Windows

Public Pi backyard camera (6)

A short talk / presentation about using the Raspberry Pi as a public backyard camera (e.g. live streamed or time lagged snapshots of a bird feeder).