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All the articles I've posted.

Docker Health Checks
When wanting to monitor the condition of your containers using Nagios there are some really nice features you can enable to check that your containers are

Saltstack on Debian 10
Following the installation guide caused a few quirks and failures on my Debian 10 install. There are a few missing packages and the bootstrap version of th

Cephfs
Updated:https://ceph.io/ Ceph uniquely delivers object, block, and file storage in one unified system .

Docker and PostgreSQL
Updated:New job, new challenges. I've come across docker in the past, but have pretty much been on the follow these commands to fire up a docker and then use it. N

Ignore Comments in Files
Updated:A very handy grep that you can use to cat your files without the hash (#) comments: $ grep '^[^#]' /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf Produces only the lines that

dnsmasq CNAME problem
Updated:Today a chunk of the network CNAME resolutions failed. We looked at the config file /etc/dsmasq.d/dns-cname.conf and everything looked in order. A test of

Adding a Gnome Favourite
Updated:I was trying to add the Postman app to my Gnome favourite bar, but right clicking it doesn't give me the option to add it as a favourite. Apparently if you

JumpCloud
Updated:Sometimes I'm surprised at why I've never come across things before. This is a big one for me. For the longest time I was pondering how to resolve some SSO

Laravel, Nuxt.js and Nginx
Whilst experimenting with Nuxt.js (A Vue.js framework) as a front end client for Laravel I discovered I was going to face some issues with CORS, certificat

Laravel and Firebase Sync
Updated:Today I've been working on an idea I've had for a while now. Sometimes you want your internal data exposed to the outside world, but don't really want to o