The ramblings of a computer geek
VMware have released an update that makes updating the Secure Boot certificates within the BIOS/UEFI NVRAM as easy as shutting down a VM and then restarting it (ensuring it is running VM Hardware 21+). But what happens if you have some hosts you have not yet updated to ESXi 8.0.3 Update 3j P09 (25429389) that … Read more
To SCP from a remote host, to a local directory, including all files and directories (recursively) you can use the following command: In the above we’re copying all files from the user’s home directory to the (current) local directory. So doing this as a real world example:
I was using Minikube and had created some users with some certificates (see a previous article), however upon trying to login the following day and attempt to perform some commands I got this error: When running a “get pods”, I see I’m not actually authenticated! Hunting the Issue Looking under the Minikube logs, and specifically … Read more
You can obtain information from a Virtual Machine via its VMTools service via the VMware PowerCLI, here is a simple working example you can build from to determine ID 1808 which shows that the machine has successfully completed its Secure Boot remediation (i.e. installing the new 2023 certificates to NVRAM and swapping to the new … Read more
We’ll create user called “dave” to use within a Kubernetes cluster, I’m using Minikube in this case. Create Private Key Create the private key: Create and Sign the CSR Now create the Certificate Signing Request (CSR): Now on this the subject is important. Here you are defining their username (CN), “dave” in this case, and … Read more
A quick way to see the API Resources for your Kubernetes cluster is via the command: You get an output such as the following: Let’s take a quick look at some of the resources available. The api-resources “pods” for example is under the “v1” ApiVersion, hence why when you are creating your YAML file for … Read more
Quick reference for Terraform when using AWS. Once you are authenticated, i’m assuming SSO here, then you can apply your configuration with: You can add the “–auto-approve” to the end so you don’t have to press “yes”, but use with caution!
Here’s a quick example, which might help you, it filters by specific attributes (which you can’t get through the GUI) when you’re attempting to create a Custom View for Event Viewer.
Let’s say you have three lines and you multi-select the beginning by holding ALT, then dragging down, so you end up with the cursor blinking across all three lines at once: You then add some something at the beginning of all three lines by typing across multiple lines at once: But now you want to … Read more
Assuming you have your Microsoft Windows Domain Controllers sending their event logs into Splunk, here is a query that will pull out the pertinent details you need to find anything that is still running non-compliant RC4 for ticketing. Note that your index and Log names may vary.