After the long process of building out my PoC vault cluster for storing LUKS keys (Series starting here: Part Zero), i needed a way to generate LetsEncrypt certs for these private services. Dehydra...
Tautulli notifications to Google Chat
This was suprisingly difficult for me to get working initially, though that was just my not understanding webhooks in Google Chat. Originally i assumed chat would just accept POST’s to the webhook...
Setting PowerDNS with MariaDB Replication
I’ve been wanting to change to PowerDNS for a little but havnt got around to it. After taking some PTO from work and buying a bunch of new Raspberry Pi’s i figured now is as good a time as any to b...
Building a Raspberry PI Based Kubernetes Cluster
This is a quick guide on building a Raspberry PI 4 Based Kubernetes cluster. For this ill be using 4 Raspberry Pi 4’s. For starters we need to make sure we have our base image setup correctly. I a...
Unifi Switches connecting to Netgear smart-switches
This is a really quick post about trying to get Unifi and netgear switches to work together. I spent HOURS trying to get a LAG up between these 2 switches. For my network i have an 8 port PoE Unif...
Interacting with the Unifi API using Mattermost slash commands
Or, how to annoy the kids by making it easy for their mum to ban them from the Wifi. We live in a 3 storey house, with kids usually in their rooms on the upper 2 floors. One is usually watching yo...
Setting up Bind views
This is first post of hopefully many about my “kidnet”. The idea is to limit the kids exposure to the more “adult” side of the internet using BIND. The plan is to use my exisiting infrastructure t...
Using G-suite SAML with Splunk
Splunk isnt on the officially support list of apps that can intergrate with G-Suite SAML, but it can be manually addded. This is the process i went through just last night to intergrate G-suite SAM...
New year, New Homelab
There has been a lot of changes in my life including a new awesome job aswell as some family stuff, hence so few updates. But now as i have a few minutes i figured id run down what i have been doin...
Building a basic jekyll git and jenkins build pipeline
This website used to use Jekyll as its static site generator. I prefer working with static site generators as it means the website needs very little resources and isnt prone to as many vulnerabilit...