I recently ran into a minor inconvenience with a configuration on one of my Vagrant machines. You see, I’m implementing a queueing service on an application and I needed that service to be started whenever the machine starts up. Normally,… Continue Reading
I love tinkering with my homelab but there is always a fear in the back of my mind, that one of my servers is running an outdated package that is being actively exploited. I don’t want to spend my free… Continue Reading
Not long ago, I was looking through my container configurations in the Proxmox GUI and noticed that one very important container had been running as privileged. I must’ve forgotten to click the “Unprivileged” checkbox when I was creating it. For… Continue Reading
I hate typing the same commands over and over into the terminal. I hate it so much that every time I have CLI deja-vu, the first thing I say to myself is “How can I automate this?” Usually, it’s as… Continue Reading
I threw together a simple bash script to be run via cron jobs that will backup an entire WordPress site. Technically, it will work for a lot more than that assuming the site you’re backing up has a single directory… Continue Reading
In keeping with my previous posts discussing deployments with Git and Capistrano, I thought it appropriate to mention the latest tool I’ve been using to automate shipping code; Deployer. Since discovering Deployer, I’ve dropped Capistrano and git deployments. Those tools… Continue Reading
If you’re at all into homelabbing, are a server administrator, or have an interest virtualization, you’ve probably heard of Proxmox. In my case, I just love to tinker with my homelab. One of the things I love about Proxmox, is… Continue Reading
I finally got around to looking at the Linux Voice 18 and I have to say, the Summer hacks section is really cool. I’ve always been curious about recompiling a kernel and playing around with the different settings, but the project… Continue Reading