OpenSUSE: Month 5 - May 2020 - Going All In It's month 5 already, this is coming up to the half way of the year, the planet is in COVID19 lockdown, and this month I've gone where possible all in
howto Rundeck 3: Install, Setup a Project and Add Nodes IntroductionRundeck is both a hugely powerful method of centralising your scripts and time based (cron) jobs and a right royal pain in the bum to setup. Being an open source
opensuse Setting up Foreman 2.0 and Puppet 6 to manage Opensuse Leap and Ubuntu 18.04 servers As I continue Building out my Homelab and the number of servers grow, managing the environment manually is going to get harder and harder. With this in mind this guide
Using Red Hat Cockpit to centrally manage my Homelab As I've been redesigning how i use my homelab, having a central console I can go to to manage the servers and get viability has become more of a requirement
opensuse Self Hosting your own Riot.im Front End and Matrix server using Docker (with Postgres) IntroductionThis is a home project, a should not be used in a production environment type project. The scope of what I'm trying to do here is a simple one, its
howto Installing OpenStack Devstack Setting up OpenStack DevStack on an Ubuntu 18.04 minimum install to create a test environment.
opensuse Installing a cluster on OpenSUSE using Hawk2 and iSCSI Some notes on setting up Hawk2 on OpenSUSE as a multi node cluster backed by FreeNAS ISCSI
blog OpenSUSE: Month 4 - Apr 2020 - Support and Branching out How does OpenSUSE work as a daily driver? What is ti like to run the applications you need and get support issues resolved?
opensuse OpenSUSE: Month 3 - Mar 2020 - Getting on and using it. Having got to grip with the tools and the command line last month this month I've been getting my daily drivers and applications working which means getting the Applications I need to use and connectivity back home working.
opensuse Turning web content into a Linux App.. A command line tool that can turn any web URL into a native Linux Electron App which came in very handy today.
homelab VNC Connect as a Teamviewer Replacement. A cloud managed remote desktop server solution which has been around for a very long time just not in this guise.
howto Wireguard Roadwarrior setup using Ubuntu Server 18.04, Pi-hole and Google Wifi (with some double NAT) Wireguard has had a lot of press because of its addition to the Linux Kernel. With this in mind I look to setup a Roadwarrior setup
homelab Home Video Surveillence made easy.. For most people the first introduction into some form of home automation is the Camera either through a Doorbell or using one of the many available home surveillance systems.
opinion I will never chat online like I want to.. Its 2020 and we still cant chat on the internet like we want to
opensuse OpenSUSE: Month 2 - Feb 2020 - What does OpenSuse do? Following on from last month, this is a post about what makes OpenSUSE a good distro and sets it apart.
review OpenSuse: Month 1 - Jan 2020 - Setting up the KDE Desktop This is the first post from the first month of not Disto hopping for a whole year and sticking with one Distro, OpenSuse Tumbleweed, for 12 months (at least) DisclaimerRemember
linux Using OpenSuse the year begins — Tumbleweed on my Dell XPS-13 (2019) The Dell XPS 13 Developers edition is a laptop designed for Linux, it’s built from the ground up to support most if not all of the Linux major distributions which makes it straight off the bat the right laptop for me.
Using Grafana to visualise syslog files with Loki I’ve recently started to look at this as an alternative to Greylog, and while the project is still in its early stages as I already run Grafana an prometheus to capture Netdata information of my home servers this seemed like something less to run.
homelab Using Plex to deliver your YouTube subscription videos Something I find poorly presented on the Android and Roku YouTube apps are subscription videos so I started looking for a way of having plex present me with the latest videos from my YouTube subscriptions.
chromeos The Chromebook Linux Shell (Update 3) The Linux shell is an amazing thing and I’m just starting to learn what can be one using it in Crostini.
howto How to set up Nginx reverse proxy with let’s encrypt Surely this is common knowledge? you’d think so however its been pretty apparent on some of the forums I spend my time that while we know security and SSL are important, getting it set up can be a bit of a problem?
review The HP Chromebook X2 is just what a Chromebook should be. While Google is pushing the Slate as the hopeful iPad killer, and in doing so has improved the OS for keyboardless operation with ChromeOS 70. Its another manufacturer who is providing the current premier (and cheaper) ChromeOS experience.
howto Jenkins — Pipeline (Beginners guide) The following document is designed to explain what Jenkins Pipelining is, and provide examples of a Jenkins pipeline which runs a basic script on a Jenkins slave.
homelab The Open Home Lab Stack This is an article I’ve put together to create an Open source Home Network stack using various technologies which are mostly free however all have paid subscriptions as well.
