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All the articles I've posted.

PostgreSQL, repmgr and Barman
Updated:Initially, I started work on a Docker container build, but using the docker build provided some challenges with editing configurations to satisfy barman st

Restic Backup Scheduler
Let the Restic backup scheduler take the strain on making your Restic backups work. https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler


Unlocking a LUKS partition with a USB stick
Linux Unified Key Setup LUKS in an “at rest” encryption method for Linux disk media. Once a drive is encrypted using LUKS you will need the password or key

Passwordless run0
Using sudo without a password is essential for Ansible, and also helpful for frequent sysadmin tasks. To achieve the same in run0 you need to create a polk

Disable Wi-Fi on Ethernet Up
I wanted to turn off/disable my Wi-Fi adapter when I plug in an Ethernet cable. Add this script as /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99-disable-wifi-when-et

Cloudflare Warp on Linux
After installing the Cloudflare Warp client on my Manjaro system, I could not get it to connect. Watching the journal, I found this: INFO main_loop: warp::

Icinga2 and Cloudflare
With Cloudflare, I wanted to host my Icinga2 instance behind a tunnel. This posed a bit of an issue as whenever I tried to submit a passive result the logs

Icinga2
Updated:Updated April 2024 Having had some experience with Nagios and writing Nagios plug-ins and using nagiosql3 to manage the configuration, the new job uses Ici

Prometheus, Alert Manager and Docker Swarm
Updated:This is not a complete plug and go HOW-TO for using Prometheus for scaling a Docker Swarm, but it does contain the building blocks for how to do it. Orches