Welcome to my tech blog

This blog will be primairily be used as a quick reference guide for myself (and other nerds). I will be posting mainly about OpenSource / Linux / DevOps but also the occasional self-build server / gamepc or networking (unifi) stuff.

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Howto Enable Ssh Key Forwarding in Ssh and Vscode via Zsh on Mac.md

So you can finally only use the key from your local laptop

 Posted on 15 Januari, 2022  |  

Introduction I recently got a new Macbook Air M1 and at my new customer i wanted to git pull certain repo’s at a remote server. This didnt really work. So i figured it all out. Underneath you can find all settings for your ssh config, ssh-agent. Add the correct parameter to your ssh config Edit your ssh config via vim ~/.ssh/config and add the following (change your remote server accordingly) [Read More]
zsh  apple  macos  remote  ssh  visual studio code  vscode  key forwarding  ssh-agent 

Setting up OBS for Twitch ( and / or YouTube ) with Nginx rtmp relay

Everything you need to relay your stream from OBS via nginx to the interwebz

 Posted on 25 Januari, 2022  |  

Prerequisites Have a linux vm with nginx installed Have knowledge on the following topics: linux commandline nginx rtmp streaming You should have at least one twitch channel and your key ready P.s. i know you can directly stream from your pc to twitch. But this is a technical in-depth guide. So i took the hard way. Introduction I’m a gamer, although the last couple of years i only played World of Warcraft and some Forza Horizon 4. [Read More]
twitch  stream  nginx  rtmp  youtube  relay 

Blockchain Ads on your hugo blog, powered by Ambire

Make a buck, without google adsense

 Posted on 30 Januari, 2021  |  

Prerequisites Have a running gitlab page (with hugo) have an understanding of opensource, blockchain and adds Introduction Let’s be fair. I like blogging and sharingknowledge. Such is the way opensource philosophy. But alot of time and effort goes into it. So I might aswell earn a little bit on the side for my troubles. Yesterday I was looking in my bitvavo app for crypto. And noticed that adex network had gained 90% in value in one day. [Read More]
addex  opensource  ads  hugo  blockchain  ambire 

Creating a Template for New Posts

Because a DevOps guy needs to automate stuff

 Posted on 29 Januari, 2021  |  

Prerequisites have a blog with hugo Introduction So I spent a good couple of hours fighting with hugo and regex, because I didn’t like the fact that I had to manually enter the date each time in new posts. Furthermore I discovered that by only stating the date: year-month-day in the header. It can occur when uploading multiple posts on the same day, chronologically the listing becomes incorrect. So to save ( hopefully at least millions of people ;) ) some time. [Read More]
hugo  gitlab pages  template 

Deploy Nginx Vhosts With Salt

one vhost is never enough

 Posted on 29 Januari, 2021  |  

Prerequisites: Have a nginx reverse proxy (which is managed by salt) Have at least 2 websites / apps you want to reverse proxy serve Introduction Oke, this blogging is kinda cool. So here’s one more just before the weekend. In my personal evironment I have some VM’s, hypervisor, NAS en k8s deployments which i want to be reachable. I used to do this manually in apache with 301 redirects. But that was in an age when Ben Hur was still alive and kicking. [Read More]
salt  saltstack  nginx  loadbalancing  upstream 

Howto configure loadbalancing with upstream in nginx

May your k3s/k8s nodes never fail, but if they will, never fear upstream is here

 Posted on 29 Januari, 2021  |  

Prerequisites: Have a nginx vm, container or pod / deployment Have at least 2 servers for backend purposes Introduction As I like to toy around with salt I decided to leave my nginx vm intact rather than migrate it to a k8s deployment. However when I added an extra node to my k3s cluster, it made me realize I should have som form of loadbalancing in the event that one of the nodes goes down. [Read More]
salt  saltstack  nginx  loadbalancing  upstream 

Encrypting private pillar data on your salt master

And thus you can push your code to git without exposing your secrets

 Posted on 28 Januari, 2021  |  

Prerequisites: Have a salt master and a salt minion configured Have data which you want gpg encrypted Introduction I presume that anyone reading this blog is aware that it is not done to paste plaintext passwords in code (commited to git) (albeit a prive repo or not). Therefore since the release of salt 2016.3.0 it is possible to encrypt sensitive data with gpg keys. Short introduction to gpg: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. [Read More]
salt  saltstack  gpg  pillar  secrets 

How to configure scheduling from the salt pillar data

Without crashing the minion

 Posted on 27 Januari, 2021  |  

Prerequisites: Have a salt master and a salt minion configured Introduction Automated updates of your VM’s are a blessing. You can schedule them from your salt master from within the pillar data Create a schedule in pillar Create a dir and file mkdir /srv/pillar/schedule touch /srv/pillar/schedule/update.sls Place the following file in update.sls: schedule: update: maxrunning: 1 run_on_start: False function: state.apply args: - 'base.updates' when: - Wednesday 13:30 Add the following to your top. [Read More]
salt  saltstack  schedule  updates 

How to configure your DNS records, your own custom domain and cloudflare for your gitlab page

With love from transip.nl and cloudflare.com

 Posted on 26 Januari, 2021  |  

Prerequisites: Set up a gitlab page Have a cloudflare account Have your domain registered at a registrar or at cloudflare Introduction In a previous blog i explained howto setup gitlab page. However it is possible to use a custom domainname. And since i’m a nerd, i wanted to configure that aswell. Register your domain Register you domain name at a registrar like transip.nl or clouddlfare.com I used transip.nl myself [Read More]
gitlab  transip  gitlab page  cloudflare 

How to setup your own gitlab page

Deployed with CI/CD and Hugo

 Posted on 26 Januari, 2021  |  

Prerequisites: Have a gitlab account Have a good reasonable understanding of git (cloning, commiting and merging) Introduction I used to have a wordpress blog, in which i placed all posts manually. As i work alot from git, i went to look for a more automated solution. Gitlab page (forking a project) This gitlab page will be forked from hugo. View the sample projects by navigating to the GitLab Pages examples group. [Read More]
gitlab  hugo  gitlab page  debian  kubernetes  k3s