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Unlocking a LUKS partition with a USB stick
Linux Unified Key Setup LUKS in an “at rest” encryption method for Linux disk media. Once a drive is encrypted using LUKS you will need the password or key

Passwordless run0
Using sudo without a password is essential for Ansible, and also helpful for frequent sysadmin tasks. To achieve the same in run0 you need to create a polk

Disable Wi-Fi on Ethernet Up
I wanted to turn off/disable my Wi-Fi adapter when I plug in an Ethernet cable. Add this script as /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99-disable-wifi-when-et

Cloudflare Warp on Linux
After installing the Cloudflare Warp client on my Manjaro system, I could not get it to connect. Watching the journal, I found this: INFO main_loop: warp::

Icinga2 and Cloudflare
With Cloudflare, I wanted to host my Icinga2 instance behind a tunnel. This posed a bit of an issue as whenever I tried to submit a passive result the logs

Icinga2
Updated:Updated April 2024 Having had some experience with Nagios and writing Nagios plug-ins and using nagiosql3 to manage the configuration, the new job uses Ici

Prometheus, Alert Manager and Docker Swarm
Updated:This is not a complete plug and go HOW-TO for using Prometheus for scaling a Docker Swarm, but it does contain the building blocks for how to do it. Orches

fish
Updated:I've been using the excellent zsh and antigen for a while, but one thing really annoyed me. The autocomplete often showed duplicate characters or mangled t

Knock vs. Knockd
I'm working on a project that requires a machine to be contactable on a client's remote network even when its DHCP fails. We've seen an issue where our dev

Docker and a Local Squid Proxy
Updated:I've been repetitively building a Docker multi-stage image and found many of the Python requirements are dragging in some pretty large content. This isn't