NAT and Macvlan on production LXD (plus reverse proxy & SSH Config)
Intro and LXD install At work recently I was charged with rebuilding a bare metal host. Beyond needing to follow our security best practices and be well documented, it was […]
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Easy Pi-Hole and Stubby on Orange Pi Zero & Raspberry Pi 3
Skip to the install guide if you just want to know how to set up your Pi easily ;) Otherwise, read on for a little background. Introduction I’ve been deep […]
Bootstrap SSH on Ubuntu Core with out Ubuntu SSO credentials
I was playing around with Snaps and I wanted to try out Ubuntu Core as well. I still had some of those Orange Pi Zero boards laying around and when […]
Teaching Kids About Busy Signals with a PBX on LXD for $15
The other day the kids and I were at our local, awesome Goodwill store. I guess they’re all awesome, eh? I was looking over the pile of small electronics while […]
From zero to LXD: Installing a private compute cloud on a Cisco C220 M4SFF
Introduction Having some nice server grade hardware on hand, I knew I needed to put it to good use. I’m talking about the Cisco C220 M4SFF: This lil’ guy comes […]
Howto: Sympa 6.2 on Ubuntu 17.04
This post is a continuation of the my last post on the topic, “Howto: Sympa 6.1 on Ubuntu 16.04“. It should come as no surprise that this is about installing […]
Howto: Sympa 6.1 on Ubuntu 16.04
Recently I was tasked at work to get an instance of Sympa set up. Their docs are a bit scattered, but I found a promising post on debian.org which suggested […]
Scanning multiple subnets for SSH servers that accept passwords
At work I was tasked to see if any of our servers are running SSH which allow passwords instead of strictly only allowing SSH keys. You can tell if they […]
Ubuntu 16.04 on Dell XPS 13 9350 (Updated 11/24/16)
Why upgrade? After watching my shopmate get one, then seeing The Wirecutter recommend it (as of May 2016) and then seeing Dell upgrade it, I was very tempted to get […]
Let’s Encrypt TLS & A+ on SSL Labs
As you may recall, around here we like our TLS, and we like it rare! I have no idea what “rare” means in the context of web encryption, but you […]