Breaking things so you don't have to
I run Drone as my CI/CD depoyment platform for my home Kubernetes cluster. It’s a nice and simple platform to use that integrates with my gitea environment painlessly. One issue I have had a few times has been (through lack of my own password management) I have implemented a repository secret key into my configurationContinue reading How to recover secret key from Drone CI/CD PostgreSQL DB
Those that know me, will vouch that I am a big lover of fancy dashboards, metrics and monitoring. I recently became a customer of Octopus Energy after a situation with Yorkshire Energy, and Scottish Power left a bad taste in my mouth (and wallet) One of the things I really like about Octopus is thatContinue reading Monitoring my energy consumption with Octopus Energy, Grafana, Influxdb and Node.js
As I’m starting to investigate K8’s as a replacement for docker swarm, I have been seeing how to integrate it with our cloud infrastructure. I found a plugin which integrates the volumes, networking etc in with openstack natively, meaning that instead of doing a “volume mount” in docker swarm, with the dirs pinned to aContinue reading Installing Kubernetes on Openstack with Cinder integration for persistent volume mounts
The latest version of the CheckPoint firewall software has a very useful feature when deploying across organisations utilising O365 with AzureAD as the authentication mechanism. This is becoming increasingly common having end user devices registered with AzureAD and managed by intune, however I found the CheckPoint guides lacking and not much else in the publicContinue reading Configuring CheckPoint R81 with AzureAD Authentication for VPN / Identity Awareness
The Back Story We have a smart meter fitted at our house and I noticed that it reports back to our provider on a daily basis our electricity consumption. Over the winter we got landed with a huge electricity bill and I was trying to work out why it was so high. I did someContinue reading Home power monitoring with an ESP8266, InfluxDB and Grafana
Thought this was a cool one to share, it’s been a while since I posted something on here! At home I have 4 27″ HP G27 monitors, one is a G2 and the other three are G1’s With the whole COVID thing going on, I was using my home PC to work, however I figuredContinue reading Changing monitor input settings with ddccontrol and bash on Ubuntu 20.04
Hello again! I released a live temperature display for the intel edison a couple of days ago and it seemed to go rather well, I have been tinkering around with the edison a bit more and have managed to get my head around the coding language and how things work. It was all new toContinue reading Temperature Controlled Relay
Hi There everyone! It’s been a long time since I posted anything on here, and I thought the new Intel IoT release would be a great idea to create a instructable. So – What is IoT? IoT stands for “Internet of Things” which is a development of the “Internet” where it is planned for everyContinue reading Intel Edison Live Temperature Display
Good afternoon folks! I have a few raspberry pi’s now on my home network, performing various uses such as media centers, home automation servers, and print servers. Now I have bought another one of these awesome little computers for use in my datashed. I planned to turn it into an environmental monitoring solution, so IContinue reading Raspberry Pi Temperature Sensor That Logs to Grafana
So we had an interesting problem on the office network the other day, thought it would be useful to write up in case someone else has this issue in the future, or more likely, I’ll have this same problem again and I’ll find my own blog after hours of googling with the fix. But IContinue reading Pfsense VPN Server where it is not the default GW