I have recently acquired several Gen6 HP machines (2 x DL160’s & 1 x DL180). These are pretty old pieces of kit, but are reasonably priced. Not too loud and not too power hungry, so they make pretty good homelab machines.
Continue readingI was working on the Chef AMI on AWS, there is a problem in that the version of OpenSSL that comes embedded is vulnerable to CVE-2016-2107.
Continue readingA quick rundown on installing FreeIPA om CentOS 7
Continue readingI run my media downloading stack on a Gen 8 HP Microserver. This comes with 2 builtin 1Gbps ports (as well as the dedicated ilo port). As this machine is used for downloading and streaming media, i’d like to utilise both ports for the maximum possible throughput.
Continue readingSetting up a VPC with a VPN and routes propagated over BGP was something i had recently tasked myself in work. This is how i made it work.
Continue readingI didnt find much concrete information on terminating an AWS VPN on a Centos 6 box, so figured id write it up here, for my own reference as we as others.
Continue readingDue to issues with my ISP, i wrote a really quick automated speedtest using speedtest-cli which sends the output to graphite.
Continue readingHere is a quick run through on how to encrypt a USB flash drive using Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS).
Continue readingFor my new graphing machine (graphite, grafana, collectd) i wanted to be able to view the Apache server-status of a couple of my reverse proxy’s. This is the directive i had to add.
Continue readingI needed to setup Crashplan on my local linux server which is acting as an NFS and SMB server for all my media. As this is a headless server and the CrashPlan app doesnt have a cli, this is how to access it remotely.
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