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

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]

Deploy Nginx Vhosts With Salt

one vhost is never enough

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]

Howto configure loadbalancing with upstream in nginx

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

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]