Problems with upgrades on Arch Linux are very rare, and a situation like today’s is a first for me in nearly 10 years of using the system. So, what happened: installed upgrades with pacman -Syu after installation, sudo reboot would hang managed to reboot only with sudo reboot -f (force) after the reboot – X.Org… Read More »
Continuing the setup of my home NAS on FreeBSD. Actually, a NAS is a Network System, and it’s desirable to have access to it from other devices – Linux and Windows hosts, phones, and TVs. Here we have two main options – Samba and NFS. One could also mention sshfs – but this solution is… Read More »
Continuing the “for fun and profit” journey of setting up my home server with FreeBSD on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M720s SFF. And today, finally, we will do the main part – set up a ZFS pool on real disks, look at working with datasets, encryption, snapshots, and monitoring. All posts in this blog series: FreeBSD:… Read More »
In the previous post, FreeBSD: WireGuard VPN, Linux peer and routing between networks, we set up a VPN to connect two networks – my office and home – and everything is working perfectly. However, currently, to connect to any host in the networks, you have to specify an IP address. Of course, you could manually… Read More »
I am continuing to set up my home server on FreeBSD 14.3, which is intended to serve as a NAS. In the previous post, FreeBSD: introduction to Packet Filter (PF) firewall, we got acquainted with firewalls; the next step is to configure a VPN for access. The main idea is to (finally!) connect my “office”… Read More »
I’m continuing to gradually set up my home NAS on FreeBSD, and the first thing I want to dive into is FreeBSD firewalls. I used to work with IPFW back in the day – FreeBSD: initial setup of IPFW, from 2012. Currently, there are three “built-in” firewalls in the system – Packet Filter (PF), IP… Read More »
I have an idea to set up a home NAS on FreeBSD. For this purpose, I bought a Lenovo ThinkCentre M720s SFF – it’s quiet, compact, and offers the possibility to install 2 SATA III SSDs plus a separate M.2 slot for an NVMe SSD. What is planned: on NVMe SSD: UFS and FreeBSD on… Read More »
I’ve been a ThinkPad fan for a long time; I really love their entire lineup. Recently, I came across the X200 model, which was manufactured starting in 2008 – I just saw a picture somewhere and really wanted it for my “collection.” Unexpectedly, it was even available for sale in Ukraine, so I bought this… Read More »
Continuing the topic of AWS Load Balancer logs: in the previous post, Golang: recording AWS Load Balancer logs to VictoriaLogs, we collected logs using our own logs collector in Golang. Now we need to get something useful out of these logs. Previously, when I had Loki on my project, we used its RecordingRules to create… Read More »
The next task I want to do with Golang is building a custom log collector that retrieves AWS Application Load Balancer logs from S3 and sends them to VictoriaLogs. Sure, we could simply use Vector.dev, like what I did for AWS VPC Flow Logs (see: Vector.dev introduction, logs from AWS S3, and VictoriaLogs integration). But… Read More »