I recently switched my home setup from nginx to traefik. I had to get used to the new configuration styles and weird doc style of traefik, but suffice to say, I am happy at the end results. Traefik ships with SNI, allowing me to snoop the connection and prevent unauthorized access to my file server. […]
This past week I have been able to traverse down the rabbit hole of personal tech debt. After a week’s work, I think I was able to get to the bottom and give everything an updated timestamp! All kidding aside, here were some of the projects I was able to revisit: Kubernetes Cluster My k8s […]
I have been working on a personal project to organize my preaching illustrations. Whereas one could use a tool such as Notion, Evernote, or Obsidian, I have had a desire to keep my data in an easy to use interface. I should not have to spend 10 minutes to find that illustration I need. Plus, […]
The new year has already been dubbed by some in the tech world as the year of RSS, meaning people will ditch social media for the consumption-style RSS feed. It is the same concept of switching from a smartphone to a mobile phone. You might be thinking, “Why would anyone go backwards in technology?” Everyone […]
The painfully slow death of social media is pushing the masses back into our blog-o-spheres. In 2 years, the only people doing social media will be those who are not technical enough to click a one-button wordpress/ghost install and pay $5/month from a hosting provider.Of course, there will be the faithful few who still insist […]
As a step further to my previous post, I have created a boilerplate for future WordPress projects. It can be accessed at https://github.com/andrewwippler/WordPress-Containerization-Boilerplate. To quickly start a WordPress environment, simply run the following commands: git clone git@github.com:andrewwippler/WordPress-Containerization-Boilerplate.git cd WordPress-Containerization-Boilerplate/ docker-compose up and by visiting http://localhost:8080 More instructions are in the repo README. Happy Plugin/Theme development.
WordPress is amazingly popular considering how antiquated the file structure and code appears to be. Even still, it is the easiest CMS that I have used and the community has created plugins to make the copy-folder-for-a-new-theme/plugin at least tolerable. A challenge comes when one wants to use the 1990’s method of serving web applications in […]
Jenkins-x appears to be the next big thing in CI/CD workflows – especially if you develop applications on kubernetes. There were a few tweaks I needed to do to set it up: I had to manually create Persistent Volumes (no big deal, below are what I have for my NFS share) apiVersion: v1 kind: PersistentVolume metadata: […]
This is the script I use to change the DNS record of my home IP when it changes. I have it running once a week and have not noticed a lapse in coverage. If your ISP has DHCP configured correctly, you will receive the same IP address when you are due for a renew. Otherwise […]
After I created a home kubernetes cluster, I immediately wanted to allow external access to pods/services/ingresses hosted inside the cluster. One must be aware that in bare metal environments, there is no receiver of an api call to create a load balancer. Since there is not a scriptable environment available to kubernetes, kubernetes cannot request […]
The day before thanksgiving, I was pondering an issue I was having. I was pinning a package to a specific version in my Docker container and the repository I grabbed it from stopped offering this specific version. This resulted in a container that Jenkins responded as being built correctly, but missing an integral package that […]
I am a long time user of Evernote. Currently it has the best browser extensions, a wide range of supported operating systems, and it has a free tier; however, I am getting frustrated with it. In the past year, they have changed plans twice – now the free tier is only supported on 2 platforms. […]
In 2017, this topic seems a little dated and will probably not get me an opportunity to speak at a conference. While all of the elite programmers, cool kids, and CS grads are talking languages such as Go and Erlang – how to do tracing, performance testing, and the like – it seems very juvenile […]
On Dec 20th, I am scheduled to take my COA exam. From the exam requirements page, it appears to be a somewhat moderately difficult exam. The few points I need work on are heat templates and swift object administration. A few things I know about the exam are what are publicly available via YouTube videos […]
You still use FTP You use SFTP You have a single server hosting 1 website, MySQL, and PHP. It has 4+ GB of RAM and you only have ~2,000 visitors a day. You login via root You don’t use version control You use a control panel for servers which you have SSH access. It takes […]