Ive recently had the unfortunate experience of working with this host after renting a dedicated server. This is how it went for me… The backstory This server was my Plex automation server. It ran...
Webtopia - The worst host Ive ever dealt with
Automating Jekyll deployments with Circle-CI
This will hopefully be quite a quick run through on how i deploy this website to my VPS using 3 services: Visual Studio Code Server Github Circle-CI Visual Studio Code Server This is depl...
Thoughts on the Le Mans virtual 24 hour race
I am an avid Sim racer, i enjoy both engaging in races and also watching the big events. Ive watched it for many years and have been sim racing myself for longer. I tend to stick to iRacing and ACC...
Building the ultimate monitoring stack with Prometheus
Perhaps not the “Ultimate” monitoring stack, but this should give you a fantastic (in my opinion) baseline to be well on your way to a useful monitoring stack using Prometheus, Grafana and a bunch ...
Using Vault to store LUKS keys – Conclusion
Firstly, this was a really fun experiment which has ended up with a working solution. There is still a lot of work to do on this before it should be considered anywhere near “Production Ready”. Off...
Using Vault to store LUKS keys – Part Five
This is a continuation from my previous five posts (Part Zero, Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four ) about the need to have automated way of storing and pull LUKS keys for my servers. In thi...
Using Vault to store LUKS keys – Part Four
This is a continuation from my previous four posts (Part Zero, Part One, Part Two, Part Three ) about the need to have automated way of storing and pull LUKS keys for my servers. In this post im g...
Using Vault to store LUKS keys – Part Three
This is a continuation from my previous three posts (Part Zero and Part One and Part Two) about the need to have automated way of storing and pull LUKS keys for my servers. For this section we are...
Using Vault to store LUKS keys - Part Two
This is a continuation from my previous two posts (Part Zero and Part One) about the need to have automated way of storing and pull LUKS keys for my servers. In this post, we are going to setup th...
Using Vault to store LUKS keys - Part One
This is a continuation from my previous postt about the need to have automated way of storing and pull LUKS keys for my servers. In this post, we are going actually start getting things moving by ...