Admin, deployment and automation

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

Combining Linux and Windows, with an emphasis on Linux

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.

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.

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.

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

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…

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

This article details using the XCA GUI for creating private SSL certificates for enabling end-to-end SSL on non-public servers.

I was tired excessive bot traffic spamming my logs, so I learned how to reduce the noise in my logs.

Linux network monitoring presentation using munin and nagios circa 2006