Author Archives: setevoy

FreeBSD: Jails Networking and Container Management with Bastille
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4 May 2026

Sometimes on FreeBSD you need to run services that aren’t officially supported by FreeBSD, and this post actually came about because I was installing Open WebUI on my NAS – and Open WebUI was easier to set up on Linux. So I spun it up in a FreeBSD Linux jail, and to create the container… Read More »

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Claude Code: creating Kubernetes debugging AI Agent for VictoriaMetrics
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30 April 2026

While I’m working on a series of posts about setting up and using Claude Code, here’s a quick example of building my own AI Agent for VictoriaMetrics and Kubernetes, “wrapping” it into a Claude Code Plugin, and creating my own Claude Code Marketplace where similar plugins for developers on my project will live. The general… Read More »

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SSL/TLS: Self-signed Certificate Authority for NGINX on FreeBSD
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18 April 2026

I run a bunch of web services on my home NAS – Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, my own WordPress blog, and half a dozen other small things. The whole series of posts on FreeBSD and NAS starts here – FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – setting up ZFS mirror, there are 15 parts as of now. NGINX+PHP… Read More »

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AWS: Setting up Okta SSO with AWS IAM Identity Center
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31 March 2026

In the previous part of the Okta series we set up SSO for Grafana (see Okta: configuring Grafana SSO with OIDC and Role mapping) – now for a more interesting task: configuring SSO for AWS, with not just login but also user provisioning. Okta has a ready-made AWS IAM Identity Center App that lets you… Read More »

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FreeBSD: Configuring FEMP – NGINX, PHP-FPM, MariaDB
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30 March 2026

Another installment in the FreeBSD Home NAS series, though this one isn’t really about the NAS – it’s purely about running web services. The full FreeBSD/NAS series starts here – FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – ZFS mirror setup, which now has 15 parts, but FEMP gets its own post. My FreeBSD host already runs… Read More »

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VictoriaMetrics: Basic Monitoring for AWS, Linux, NGINX, and PHP
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28 March 2026

The RTFM migration from DigitalOcean to AWS went smoothly, and I’m gradually settling in. New infrastructure, everything new – so for the first while I want to keep a close eye on the server and blog state, which means setting up basic monitoring for WordPress: NGINX, PHP-FPM, the database, and the infrastructure running it all.… Read More »

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VictoriaMetrics: using vmalert and query() in alerts for different $value values
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26 March 2026

Just a quick note, because I’ve needed to do something like this fairly often – and only today discovered how elegantly it’s done with vmalert. So, sometimes in an alert you want to display multiple $value entries, for example: – alert: OpenAI Budget Usage expr: | openai_budget_used_usd / openai_budget_total_usd * 100 > 80 … annotations:… Read More »

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