UniFi AP with pfSense VLAN's
2020-03-14
Infrastructure
pfSense and the UniFi suite both support VLAN’s. It turns out to be very easy to configure them to work together with pfSense owning the VLAN definitions and addressing, and...
UniFi Controller on a Raspberry Pi
2020-03-13
Infrastructure
I’ve added some UniFi devices to my network and need the UniFi Controller software to configure and manage them. The logical place to deploy the Controller is on my control...
SSH on Synology with Key Pairs
2020-02-23
Infrastructure
I picked up a Synology NAS a couple of days ago and one of the first things I wanted to do was enable SSH access in order to be able...
Monitoring APC UPS Units with Prometheus on Raspberry Pi
2020-02-20
Infrastructure
Observability
I’ve recently implemented Prometheus so I can monitor my new KVM host which replaced my old VMWare ESXi hosts. It occurred to me that maybe I could monitor my APC...
Running KVM on Debian Buster
2020-02-08
Infrastructure
I’ve been wanting to move from ESXi to KVM for a while for a few reasons and finally this weekend I’ve started trialing the migration process.
Travel Log 2019
2019-12-31
Travel
Summary: Countries Visited: 9 - Austria, Thailand, The Maldives, Switzerland, Singapore (seven times), Macau, Croatia, USA (twice), Australia Countries Transited: 5 - Austria, Singapore, Bosnia Herzegovnia, Germany, Taiwan (four times)...
Silencing Maven in AWS CodeBuild
2019-11-18
Devops
Cloud
Aws
One of the things you will probably want to deal with early on when running Maven builds through CodeBuild (or any other CI tool) is stopping Maven from displaying download...
modver Versioning in AWS CodeBuild
2019-11-17
Devops
Cloud
Aws
How to quickly and easily use modver versions in your AWS CodeBuild builds.
Running AWS CodeBuild Locally
2019-11-16
Devops
Cloud
Aws
I’ve been using AWS CodeBuild a lot in the past couple of weeks. I really like the elegant simplicity of it: take a buildspec.yml and a containerized build environment and...
modver
2019-10-23
Software engineering DevopsHere’s the versioning scheme I’ve used in my CI builds for many years: