Linux Installers and Serial Connections This is an update of a previous post where I argued for the importance of being able to control virtual machines using serial lines as an out-of-band tool. I still think that this is an important thing to do and this post gathers some updated examples. UEFI Boot and Mirrored Disks - almalinux This example is a test-bed for a physical (non-VM) install I needed to do on a system which uses UEFI and where we wanted RAID1 support.

Hippo Toes This is a follow-up to my earlier post on running gitlab-ce on a qnap NAS using nginx and letsencrypt. The basic ideas are discussed in that post. This post achieves the same result but via docker compose. The resulting docker-compose file is available in this repository. docker-compose We will use version 3 of docker-compose. I’m not a docker-compose expert, and I’m quite lazy so there are probably better ways of doing this (e.

I’ve been experimenting with glacier from aws to backup some of our content. The glacier service sounds very attractive (great durability, uptime etc.) but the pricing can be quite difficult to pick apart. This post documents an experiment to see how it might work for us and to get an idea of any potential costs. I think everything I want to do will fit in the free tier, but time will tell!