Adding the E3D PZ probe to a Voron V0.2
Over a year ago i built and LDO Voron V0.2 sold to me by 3djake.uk. It was my first venture
Continue reading
Creating my first API in FastAPI
Just thought this would be a good spot to introduce the first API i have built.Its currently hosted at grid-data.co.uk.
Continue reading
Automating my tortoise’s home
I recently bought a tortoise (named Burrito) as a little buddy in my office. He’s a cool dude, only about 18 months old so pretty small. Due to work and kid commitments i was struggling to remember to turn his heating on, so i needed a way of automating this.
Continue reading
Building the greatest monitoring stack with Prometheus
Perhaps not the “Ultimate” monitoring stack, but this should give you a fantastic (in my opinion) baseline to be well on your way to a useful monitoring stack using Prometheus, Grafana and a bunch of exporters!
Continue readingWebtopia – The worst host Ive ever dealt with
Ive recently had the unfortunate experience of working with this host after renting a dedicated server. This is how it went for me…
Continue reading
Automating Jekyll deployments with Circle-CI
This will hopefully be quite a quick run through on how i deploy this website to my VPS using 3 services:
Visual Studio Code Server
Github
Circle-CI
Continue readingThoughts on the Le Mans virtual 24 hour race
Lets discuss the shitshow that was LeMans virtual 24 hour 2023
Continue readingUsing Vault to store LUKS keys – Conclusion
Firstly, this was a really fun experiment which has ended up with a working solution. There is still a lot of work to do on this before it should be considered anywhere near “Production Ready”. Off the top of my head, here is what i believe needs working on
Continue readingUsing Vault to store LUKS keys – Part Five
This is a continuation from my previous five posts (Part Zero, Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four ) about the need to have automated way of storing and pull LUKS keys for my servers.
In this post im hoping we can conclude this series with setting up a client to test this whole system. For this, i have setup a new VM and added an additonal disk to it (this is all done on a proxmox cluster).
Continue readingUsing Vault to store LUKS keys – Part Four
This is a continuation from my previous four posts (Part Zero, Part One, Part Two, Part Three ) about the need to have automated way of storing and pull LUKS keys for my servers.
In this post im going through preparing Vault for storing our LUKS keys and getting the details we will need to add onto hosts for them to be able to use Vault.
Continue reading