Category Archives: Unix
Apache Guacamole terminal server – self hosted
Apache Guacamole is a terminal server you can run in-house to provide access to pretty much any server you are running using nothing but a web-browser. It can be installed onto a physical host or VM, or run as docker … Continue reading
Accessing EXT4 drives from Windows10
People are stil asking how to do this in forums today; presumably mostly dual boot uses that want to look at their Linux partiton. This post is primarily for EXT4 filesystems as those are the ones used when installed supplied … Continue reading
Setting up a DNS (dnsmasq) server for your home network
First a what this post is and is not. It covers only using dnsmasq. Who this post is for It is is primarily for people that have a lot of VMs running in their home network and are finding the … Continue reading
I have upgraded a few machines from Alma8.7 to 9.2 – my notes
I saw Alma had 9.2 available this month so decided to upgrade my 8.7 versions. My old sledgehammer method of “dnf distro-sync –releasever=nn” did not work for this. It may have if I had spent months resolving conflicting packages but … Continue reading
When puppetserver master CA expires
One issue with puppetserver CE is; the damn CA and key expire OK. That is obviously a good idea; but it is a real pain to sort out. Everything here is for puppetserver version 7.8.0 and puppet agents at versions … Continue reading
Writing Ansible modules using bash instead of python
If any of you have been paying attention I have lately been looking into ansible. First a disclaimer, I use ‘puppetserver’ and puppet agents as since they moved away from Ruby to their own scripting language which is pretty much … Continue reading
Quick install of AWX (ansible-tower upstream) into Docker
AWX is the upstream open source project for ansible-tower. If you are interested in ansible-tower it is obviously a good starting point, as it is the starting point for ansible-tower. It is also free to use, not just free as … Continue reading
Differences between Docker and Kubernetes from a container viewpoint
This post is not about the differences between Docker and Kubernetes; it is about the differences needed for containers. And why you should not expect any container from dockerhub.io to run under Kubernetes. The main difference discussed here is that … Continue reading
So you want to play with Kubernetes, try MiniKube
First off, if you have a few spare physical machines; or machines with enough resources to run a few well resourced VMs it is fairly simple to install Kubernetes itself. I have a fairly old OpenStack stack deployment yaml file … Continue reading
Setting up a CI pipeline on Linux for your home lab
Setting up a continuous integration pipeline for your home lab may seem like overkill, but if you have the memory available it is simple to do and if you have an interest in these tools why not :-). And it … Continue reading