So, maybe you’ve heard about the Musk take-over of twitter, and maybe you’ve heard about the mass exodus of a large number of users from the old platform. Personally I try not to knee-jerk react to things like this but I haven’t been exceedingly active on twitter lately. I have also long had an interest…
Making those home hosted services available with some help from WireGuard!
So, I have a long history of self-hosting. And let me tell you, self-hosting has gotten harder over the years. There was a point where I ran a linux server in my parents basement. It ran this web site (or a very much older version of it anyway) and a number of other services. In…
Nextcloud, in a container, in a bucket
Join me while I build a private cloud document and photo storage solution. Backed by an object store, so you’ll never need to expand your storage as you add files! …
Moving from docker-compose to Podman Pods
It feels like forever since I wrote my RHEL 8 beta intro to podman. In fact, it’s been quite a while, and a lot has happened since then. For some time now I’ve been planning on moving my Digital Ocean droplet, that hosts this and a few other sites, from the Centos 7 Docker platform…
Working from Home – Experts Insights
Note: this article was written collaboratively by a number of fellow Red Hat remote workers. I contributed, but cannot take credit for the article as a whole. You may see this article shared, almost verbatim, elsewhere. Your company has prudentially decided that you should work from home over the next weeks. Or you are staying…
Following up on the Legion Y740
Well it’s been about 3 months since I bought my Lenovo Legion Y740. You can read my first impressions in my “A week with the Lenovo Legion Y740” post. First I want to say that most of my opinions have not changed. I like this machine, and I do not regret the purchase at all….
My Sysadmin Story
Note: This story was originally written for Red Hat’s Enable Sysadmin blog. We’ve all got a story, right? Our lives could be laid out like a script for a movie, or in the chapters of a novel. I don’t know if anyone would read mine, but to the right audience, it might sound familiar, or…
What My Family Thinks I Do For a Living
Note: This was originally written for Red Hat’s Enable Sysadmin Blog, https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin The job title “System Administrator” is sometimes vague within the industry. Some sysadmins are responsible for a wide swath of devices, from desktops, to servers, to printers, to air conditioning units. So, sometimes when you tell another IT professional that you’re a sysadmin,…
How to Validate Security by Scanning All The Things
Note: This article was originally published on Red Hat’s Enable Sysadmin blog, https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin In parts one and two of this series, I walked you through hardening your system by identifying unneeded services, then segmenting and firewalling. Now that you’re all locked down, let’s talk about how we might validate that all of that hard work…
Defense in Depth
Note: This was originally posted on Red Hat’s Enable Sysadmin blog. https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin This is the next step in my series on hardening and network security. Please check out the previous article on Lowering your Attack Surface by Disabling Unnecessary Services. Flat Networks There was a time when all networks were flat. A flat network is…