I’ve been wanting to change to PowerDNS for a little but havnt got around to it. After taking some PTO from work and buying a bunch of new Raspberry Pi’s i figured now is as good a time as any to build this out.
Continue readingThis is a quick guide on building a Raspberry PI 4 Based Kubernetes cluster. For this ill be using 4 Raspberry Pi 4’s.
Continue readingOr, how to annoy the kids by making it easy for their mum to ban them from the Wifi.
Continue readingThis is first post of hopefully many about my “kidnet”. The idea is to limit the kids exposure to the
Continue readingThere has been a lot of changes in my life including a new awesome job aswell as some family stuff, hence so few updates.
But now as i have a few minutes i figured id run down what i have been doing in my homelab and hopefully this will prompt me to update this blog with more articles.
This website used to use Jekyll as its static site generator. I prefer working with static site generators as it means the website needs very little resources and isnt prone to as many vulnerabilities as other CMS’s. This is how i setup automated deployments of this website using Jenkins.
Continue readingI have been fiddling with multiple different authentication methods to centralise the authentication across all my devices and services. Im trying to push myself to use FreeIPA more as it seems to be becoming more widley used where using Active Directory isnt suitable. It is also really easy to enable 2FA per user which i find to be a big bonus.
Continue readingThis is a quick rundown on how to install Telegraf, influxdb and Grafana on a CentOS 7 machine. I am assuming you already have CentOS 7 installed and updated.
Continue readingEveryone loves the Pi-Hole. It does a great job blockig ad’s across your entire network. The admin page is also really useful to see whats been going on. Unfortunately the admin interface only gives details of the last 24 hours. I love graphs and graphing things. So i wanted more data.
Continue readingThe reason for this build was because i wanted to use my office Active Directory users within AWS but without giving each instance direct access to the domain controller. I also wanted some kind of resilience should the VPN’s between my VPC and office went down. Also, being a linux guy, im more comfortable with using LDAP compared to active directory.
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