My Version of Hashicorp Vault on a Raspberry Pi. There was a time when many of us techies had Raspberry PIs hanging around not doing much in boxes. I've got mine monitoring temperatures across the house, doing ad blocking and helping me out doing some docker stuff. I own a spare Pi 2B which I'd left for dead, but then …

Finally, My Own AWX Server I've been wanting my own AWX server for ages I've messed with a bit of Ansible and found it to be agreeable with some of the previous ways Ive automated code in the past, but I wanted to scale it up (given my infrastucture roots). I attempted this install two or three times this year across …

Downloading Files on a Dodgy Network Connection. I was on holiday this weekend and the place we stayed didn't have a strong internet connection. It was good enough for browsing, but not good enough for multiple people streaming stuff off of the internet. So we wanted to pull down some files from our media library …

Installing OpenShift on a VirtualBox VM I keep hearing the word OpenShift at work. I don't know what it means. First instinct is to try and get something up and running. I spent about a week and a half scouring the internet for some good instructions and tried a few things. Here's my findings. (I'll probably do a …

Coding Scenario: Work wants to create a secure pipeline for developing services and code. Computers are locked down so that they can not get dependencies off of the internet and should get the from a a verified place. My framework of choice is .NET 5, which means repository needs to be able to support nuget packages. …

Wanted to just write some quick notes down here of what I've seen attempting to use Helm So here we're using Kubernetes, it likes to use yaml files to do lots of desired state of running various bits of content (containers, pods that kind of thing). Helm is there to reduce the overhead of the complex yaml to define …

Method 1 - Docker Desktop Easiest way is to use Docker Desktop 3.2.1 and enable kubernetes in the preferences, but if you want to see whats happening under the hood I prefer to use this old Virtualbox/Vagrant method. Method 2 - VirtualBox Vagrant Tested on Mac (x86_64) 11.2.2 Big Sur Virtualbox 6.1.18 Vagrant 2.2.14 …

So bit of background. I like Mac's retina (otherwise known as HiDPI under the hood) display. Even when on a non-native resolution, I feel its sharper than running on the low DPI setting. I've bought monitors in the past (a lovely Dell, 2560x1440) and had to cave to the fact that I could not run retina/HiDPI at anything …