Backing up Windows (the hard way)

Sometimes you need to do things you don't like and you don't know where you will end up. In our household there exists one (production) system running Windows. Don't ask why and please no recommandations how to substitute it. Some things are hard to (ex)change, for example your love…

Call for testing: monitoring-plugins 2.3 in experimental

As announced recently [https://log.cyconet.org/2020/12/13/monitoring-plugins-2-3-released/] I prepared a monitoring-plugins 2.3 package for experimental. If there is enough positive feedback until 12th January 2021, I intend [https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-nagios-devel/2020-December/011005.html] to upload this into unstable targeted for Debian Bullseye.…

Comparing (OVH) I/O performance

Since some time I'm using cloud resources provided by OVH [http://www.ovh.com] for some projects I'm involved. Recently we decided to give Zammad [https://zammad.org/], an opensource support/ticketing solution, a try. We did choose the docker compose way [https://docs.zammad.org/en/latest/install-docker-compose.html]…

Deploying a (simple) docker container system

When a small platform for shipping containers is needed, not speaking about Kubernets [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes] or something, you have a couple of common things you might want to deploy at first. Usual things that I have to roll out everytime deloying such a platform: * docker [https:…

Migrating Gitlab non-packaged PostgreSQL into omnibus-packaged

With the release of Gitlab 8.15 [https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/22/gitlab-8-15-released/] it was announced that PostgreSQL [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL] needs to be upgraded [https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/22/gitlab-8-15-released/#postgresql-version-upgrade] . As I migrated from a source installation [https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/…

Container Orchestration Thoughts

Since some time everybody (read developer) want to run his new microservice [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices] stacks in containers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtualization]. I can understand that building and testing an application is important for developers. One of the benefits of containers is, that developer…

Oxidized - silly attempt at (Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ)

Since ages I wanted have replaced this freaking backup solution of our Network Equipment based on some hacky shell scripts and expect [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect] uploading the configs on a TFTP [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_File_Transfer_Protocol] server. Years ago I stumbled upon RANCID…

Using nginx as reverse proxy (for containered Ghost)

In some cases it might be a good idea to use a reverse proxy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server] in front of a web application. Nginx [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx] is a very common solution for this scenario these days. As I started with containers for…