sysadmin
2020
Mitigating CVE-2020-0674 With Powershell and SCCM
·764 words·4 mins
system-administration
tech
cybersecurity
powershell
sccm
sysadmin
technology
Happy New Year fellow SysAdmins and what a welcome it has been for us all.
2019
Container Camp in review - Part 3
·545 words·3 mins
system-administration
tech
consol
containers
docker
faas
istio
k8s
kubernetes
linkerd
service-mesh
sysadmin
technology
Right, we now know that we lack observability in our intricate fabric of container spaghetti and the boss wants answers on our unknown unknowns.
Container Camp in review - Part 2
·472 words·3 mins
system-administration
tech
containers
devops
docker
faas
k8s
kubernetes
service-mesh
sre
sysadmin
technology
Previously we touched upon the best practice of implementing user namespaces in your container ecosystem and how they are a pivotal element in the layers of security you can employ to protect your infrastructure/platforms.
Container Camp in review - Part 1
·564 words·3 mins
system-administration
tech
containers
docker
k8s
kubernetes
linux
sysadmin
technology
For those of you who follow me on other social media platforms, it will be of no surprise that I had the fortunate opportunity to attend Container Camp Australia this year.
Deploying Wordpress with Azure AKS and Helm
·877 words·5 mins
system-administration
tech
aks
azure
azure-cli
helm
kubernetes
mariadb
sysadmin
technology
wordpress
With the vast majority of cloud providers reaching a certain age, the maturity of their individual service offerings is almost a given.
Removing rules in IPTables
·272 words·2 mins
system-administration
tech
iptables
linux
networking
sysadmin
technology
So you’ve had a go at entering the wonderful world of iptables, with its chains, rules and of course tables.
Passing the Microsoft Azure AZ-900 Exam
·562 words·3 mins
system-administration
tech
azure
certification
cloud
learning
sysadmin
technology
I’ve previously written and laid out what I want to accomplish in my certification journey for 2019 however, as we all know; best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
Using IPTables to force all DNS queries to a Pi-Hole
·756 words·4 mins
system-administration
tech
iptables
linux
networking
pihole
sysadmin
technology
Hopefully by now you have heard the good word about Pi-Hole, set one up in a Docker container and now enjoying a substantially ad-less and speedy internet experience across all your devices.
Changing Hostnames in Linux
·328 words·2 mins
system-administration
tech
debian
linux
raspberry-pi
raspbian
sysadmin
technology
Recently I decided to give my two Raspberry Pi devices an overhaul + change in functionality.
Docker Daemon failing to start on Raspberry Pi 1 & Zeros
·535 words·3 mins
system-administration
tech
containers
core-dump
debian
docker
linux
raspberry-pi
raspbian
segmentation-fault
sysadmin
technology
Have you recently attempted to install the containerization platform known as Docker on to a first generation Raspberry Pi (including A+ and B+) or a Zero and found you couldn’t start up a container?