The next step in the process of setting up a home NAS on FreeBSD is to add an NFS share. We set up Samba in the previous part – now we let’s add NFS shares to it. My idea is for the Samba share to be used for various media resources requiring access from phones… 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 »
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 »
This time it became interesting to me – is it possible to somehow save the charge of the laptop battery? Not to say that it discharges quickly, it is enough for 5-6 hours of work, but it will not be too much, especially with the current power outages in Ukraine. Found several utilities, and will… Read More »
One of the most valuable features of the kubectl utility is its plugins. Of course, there are things like Lens, widely used by developers who don’t like working in the terminal, or tools like k9s, but kubectl‘s plugins worth for a dedicated post. So, in this post, we will install Krew – kubectl‘s plugins manager,… Read More »
There are a lot of utilities to create a Git animation for Linux, but I like the peek. Besides the Gif, also can create files in the MP4, WebM, APNG formats. On the Arch Linux can be installed from the AUR: [simterm] $ sudo pacman -S peek [/simterm] Run it: [simterm] $ peek [/simterm] The… Read More »
Finally got time to migrate the RTFM.CO.UA blog to a new server with Debian 10. This time manually, without any automation will set up a LEMP stack Wrote a similar at 2016 – Debian: установка LEMP — NGINX + PHP-FPM + MariaDB (Rus), but in time the post is more complete of the process and… Read More »
A really nice Android phone and a Linux OS integration. Besides the KDE Connect, you can use gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect if you’d prefer the Gnome project. In this post, we will set up KDE COnnect between an Android HTC phone and Arch Linux. On Android install the KDE Connect from the Play Market. On Linux, install from… Read More »
A short note about HowTo install and set a specific Java version when you have various versions installed. Will use the archlinux-java script, see the Switching between JVM. Install a package itself, here it will be Oracle Java 14: [simterm] $ yay -S jdk :: Checking for conflicts… :: Checking for inner conflicts… [Aur: 2]… Read More »
The first part – AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service: a cluster creation automation, part 1 – CloudFormation. To remind the whole idea is to create an automation process to create an EKS cluster: Ansible uses the cloudformation module to create an infrastructure by using an Outputs of the CloudFormation stack created – Ansible from a template will… Read More »