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Setup SSH with MFA

Hello there, Today, I want to write down the steps on how to set up MFA for SSH. I will also configure an exclusion for the internal network, just to showcase how that works. I created an Ansible role for this years ago, but I actually don't remember

CheckMK

Basic guide on deploying CheckMK and nginx SSL / HTTPs reverse proxy with docker

Hi there, This will be a simple guide on how to deploy CheckMK, a Monitoring System. Nothing to fancy, since I don't have too much experience myself. I just want to test the application and write down my experience with it. I will be using Rocky Linux 8.

Linux

Quick look at NormCap, an OCR screen capture tool

Hi there, Today I just want to highlight an application, I found a few days ago. NormCap. A screen-capture OCR tool. Rather than taking screenshots, it uses OCR to copy the marked text into your clipboard. Short demonstration A quick demonstration. Let's take this random picture of a

Fedora

Fedora / Rocky Linux Cloud Image deployment using cloud-init on KVM with LVM

Hello there, it's been a while. Didn't really have a topic. Today I want to take a look at a simple local deployment of Rocky / Fedora. For this, I will be using cloud-init and the cloud images provided by both distributions. This is a simple setup

KVM

Cockpit | Access to the VM console created by Virtual Machine Manager

Hi there. A few months ago, I started to mainly use "cockpit" for managing my virtual machines rather than "Virtual Machine Manager". But after switching, I noticed that the console was not accessible through the WebUI. I only had the option to connect with a remote

Linux

Linux | Add self signed certificate to trusted store

Certificate Installation A quick one today. This is basically the same thing as in the MinIO (Part 2) post. But this way it's more accessible. How to add a self signed certificate to the trusted store on a linux server. Install the package if does not exist already.

Linux

MinIO Metrics | Prometheus configuration (Part 2)

This is part 2 of the MinIO setup guide. Today I want to take a look at the configuration of Prometheus, for the MinIO metrics. Never used it before, so we will see how this works out.

Linux

MinIO deployment on RHEL/Rocky Linux 9 and Veeam Backup & Replication connection (Part 1)

In the previous post, I mentioned MinIO as an on-premise S3 solution. Today I want to take a look at how to deploy and while at it, also connect Veeam Backup & Replication to it. MinIO is a High-Performance Object Storage and API compatible with Amazon S3 cloud storage service.

Linux

Script-Server installation and configuration on Rocky Linux 9

Hello there, today I want to take a look at the "script-server" by "bugy". I have been looking for a way to simply execute scripts without having to SSH into the server. And this does basically exactly what I want. Rocky Linux 9 will be my

Fedora

Using Linux at work (Update 2024-06-06)

Update (23.08.2022): Added ksnip, Ferdium, Signal, Linphone Update (06.06.2024): New Laptop, Added NormCap Hello there, a few days ago I saw a Youtube video about business use cases for applications. The host of that video mentioned one thing that I found a bit strange. Something about

Ansible

ArubaOS-CX configuration via Ansible

Hello there. As far as I am aware, there has been support for ansible from the beginning in the ArubaOS-CX switches, but there are not many guides on this (except the official webpage of course). So, I want to learn and while doing that, create this guide. I showed how

Ansible

Install docker and update docker containers using Ansible in CentOS 8 / Rocky Linux 8

Hi there. Today I want to take a look, at how to update docker containers using ansible. This is a single home server setup, so no Kubernetes or other orchestration applications. Just simple docker. I have been managing my home servers with ansible for a while now. Nothing too extreme,