Category Archives: Automation

As you may recall I have posted earlier on installing snort as an intrusion detection system (IDS). And also an earlier post on dynamically adding firewall blacklist rules based upon traffic hitting my website based upon apache rewrite rules to … Continue reading →

In these days of firewalld not many people still use native iptables rules, but they certainly still have their place. I still use them on my main webserver simply because of the ease with which new drop rules can be … Continue reading →

It is recomended when creating docker images that minimal images be used. In the case of Fedora it is recomended that for smallest images the minimal image should be used and “microdnf” be used instead of the full blown “dnf” … Continue reading →

In these days of cloud images being launched at the push of a button, and customised via heat patterns or user configuration scripts, network install via pxe boot seems to have dropped out of the news. As most home users … Continue reading →

This post was written to acknowledge bacula has saved my ass again. My main desktop machine failed, a new replacement was purchased and swapped in, new OS installed with same hostname and ip-address. Then installed puppet and let the puppet … Continue reading →

The puppet VM tutorial environment is available from https://puppet.com/download-learning-vm as an OVA file for VMWare or VirtualBox. The good news, once the disk image is extracted from the .ova file and converted from vmdk to qcow2 using qemu-img the resulting … Continue reading →