Ordering LetsEncrypt certificates for your Proxmox servers is almost too easy, no more self-signed certificates!

I recently experimented automating VM creation across my Proxmox cluster. I tested out several tools before finally settling on Terraform and cloning from a Proxmox “template”.

2022 was a busy year, this is a concise review of almost everything I did & learned.

If you’ve used a Unix system for any length of time you’ve probably read a man page or two. Right after opening your first man page you might have googled something along the lines of “How to search in a man page”. man pages are dense, detailed, documents.

On the other hand, cheat.sh provides a short, community curated cheat sheet for many popular commands (and programming languages) filled with examples.

However, the defacto interface to cheat.sh is curl - not very user friendly. This walks through my development process of creating a shell script that:

• Filters cheat.sh endpoints using fzf.
• Formats the curl request (both the url string and response data).
• Create a key bind to call the script.

Have you ever wondered why (or how) someone’s commit has a fancy “verified” badge on Github?

They have either created & committed from the Github web editor or signed their commit using a PKI key.

It’s been a while since part one and I’ve learned so much about automation and GitOps. The overall goal for this project is still the same, an automated CI/CD system, but some of the technologies have changed. This particular post is all about integrating Dagger and Github Actions.

The original deployment strategy (detailed here) for this blog was manual and error prone. The ideal goal is to use dagger to build out the whole CI/CD system; from building the image to deploying on a local Kubernetes cluster.

Part 1 covers building the docker image and pushing it to the Github container registry.

Configuring Wireguard to allow a “road-warrior” (aka point-to-site) setup using OPNsense and systemd-networkd.

Ansible is a super powerful system configuration tool that is normally used to manage sets of servers. However, as you might have derived from the title it can also be used to configure a local deployment.