Introduction If we had a top #10 in system administration, backups would have to be one of the least sexy topics. That being said you’ll count your blessings once disaster hits and you are able to...
Comptia Network+ (N10-008) course notes
Introduction And another one in the box. Learned a lot of new concepts and it was also a great way to refresh my networking knowledge. This course is given by Keith Barker on CBT nuggets. The purp...
Productivity on gnu/linux
Introduction I’ve spent long hours studying and refreshing my knowledge of linux in the past months so I feel I need to lighten up the atmosphere a bit and turn down the technical complexity. This...
Comptia Linux+ (XK0-005) course notes
Introduction This course is given by John McGovern on CBT nuggets. The purpose of this document is to summarize some of the key learnings I got from it. Linux, Partitions, Disk Overview of the b...
April's fool
Introduction Thought I would write a diary entry with my two blunders of the week. The first one is related to a ceph cluster manipulation that killed a live production server on a busy thursday m...
Windows print server
Introduction This is a quick write up on a couple of different ways to set up a print server on a windows environment. There are generally two ways of going about this. Either add the required ser...
Home automation
Introduction This article won’t be as technical as other ones in here but I figured it would be interesting regardless. Prices have in general shot up in the last couple of years here in europe so...
Building a CMDB with grafana and low code
Introduction Docker and software in general has allowed us to spin up services within seconds as opposed to hours/days a couple of years ago. In a way it’s great but without documentation you quic...
SSO part 2 OpenId Connect
Introduction SSO stands for single sign on. Building on the first part of our SSO journey let’s now configure the identity provider, our domain controller and the active directory in order to have...
SSO part 1 Wireless network Access Control with 802.1x
Introduction I thought it might be cool to share some of the things I’ve been working on so far. This article is the first in the series where I try to break silos and integrate my systems into a ...