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Holiday session – August 2021
Nottingham(castle), Kendal (Lake District), Manchester (stadium), Leeds (Luke), Oxford (Blenheim Palace)
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Anniversary – 2021
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Project: Experimental Host
These past few days I felt an itch … one I can’t quite put in words … it’s that feeling you get when you have an idea you’re excited about ( it might be gold, it might be shit … only one way to find out … do it! 🙂 ). Working for a big…
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Home lab – Cobbler – OS provisioning on Bare metal and VMs
If not familiar with what Cobbler is and/or does then go here: https://cobbler.github.io/ As a sysadmin I always enjoyed setting up complex infrastructures or testing various cool features that some new piece of software has or simply test if my stuff would work on a newer version of Linux (whatever flavor of Linux that may…
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Camping session – June 2021
As we all know 2020 and first part of 2021 sucked thanks to COVID-19 however with the easing of the restrictions me and the boss (wife) figured we should be okay to go camping for a few days. I’ll mention Badgells Camping https://badgellswoodcamping.co.uk, Ightham Mote and Diggerland and let the pictures do the talking 🙂
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CentOS8 on ZFS
CentOS8 on ZFS is not an easy one also not a pretty one as there is no simple direct route for it. You’ll need to have a CentOS8 default install + the zfs bits on a disk which we will later on copy the files from to our zfs filesystems. You can now attach a…
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CentOS8 on BTRFS
Officially CentOS8 does not support BTRFS (the RedHat ppl had it as a demo feature on CentOS7 which allowed one to install the os on a root partition with btrfs as the filesystem) so do this at your own peril. install CentOS8 dnf upgrade -y get the remi repos for el8 installed dnf install kernel-ml…
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Haproxy maps
Haproxy is one of the best reverse proxy servers out there (saying that after year of using it for various personal and work related projects … some quite creative I’d say … ) and when I heard about its “maps” functionality (combined with the admin socket and the hitless reload functionality) I immediately realised that…
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MySQL(MariaDB) encryption at rest
I’m a big fan of encrypting my data (be that at-rest or in-tranzit) and not because I have some secrets I need to protect but rather I care about my privacy and simply don’t want anybody to find anything about me or the people I care about without me being willing to share that information…
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My take on openSUSE
Many many years ago (20 ish) I was playing with all sorts of Linux distributions (peanut, slackware, mandrake, redhat, gentoo, suse and more) and back then I came up with my top 3 preferred Linux distros. My original top 3 looked like this: 1) Slackware; 2) RedHat; 3) Debian; because at that time in terms…