I been needing alot of things lately. I was using evernote to keep my notes and ever since they changed their free offering, I’ve had my notes scattered all over notepad++, atom, code, etc and needed a quick and fast… Continue Reading
I need a quick & fast method of standing up a not so fancy minio server to test some s3 functionality. Nothing fancy was needed nor the need for multiple nodes or large datastores, but I did need it something… Continue Reading
I needed a way to quickly stand up various versions of elasticsearch for testing. Sometimes just 1 instance was needed and at other time a small cluster and configure it with TLS and security settings. I spent way too much… Continue Reading
I had a need to stand up a Kafka instance with SSL to test SSL handshakes. Today was the first time looking at Kafka so needless to say I was a bit lost. 🙁 Started out looking up various projects… Continue Reading
How to create wildcard certificate the right way to use for home so that you wouldn’t get the not trusted thingy for your site. Use my script on https://github.com/jlim0930/scripts/blob/master/wildcard.sh to generate the CA,CA key, & the certificate. Use the certificate… Continue Reading
Lets dive into kubernetes(will refer to it as k8s from here on out). What is k8s? according to wikipedia: Kubernetes (commonly stylized as k8s) is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed… Continue Reading
I recently started cycling and with the North Texas summer heat decided that I need something more than just water to help me keep hydrated during the summer. I started by taking nuun tablets and it’s very good but after… Continue Reading
grub2 is vastly different from grub. Will post some tips and tricks.. list the current kernels on the OS # egrep ^menuentry /etc/grub2.cfg | cut -f 2 -d \’ Linux Server, with Linux 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 Linux Server, with Linux 3.10.0-123.4.4.el7.x86_64 Linux… Continue Reading
Before getting started please read my previous post for RHEL/CentOS 6.x systems here. grub2 is vastly different than grub and I did not find any good solution of doing this on a live machine so lets get started. The setup… Continue Reading
It seems that there are still many machines out in the world today that have a need for software raid to protect its data. Recently I’ve been working on some POS machines which can house 2 drives but does not… Continue Reading