The ramblings of a computer geek
Log onto your master node via SSH. We’re going to build an image and then deploy it, so as a developer you’d probably be developing on your own machine possibly running docker locally to test how your containers work before deploying the code to a repository where it can then be applied to a production … Read more
Kuberntes is a platform for the managing of containerised workloads and services, that is akin to a declarative infrastructure as code type platform. It allows developers to deploy containerised applications quickly and easily and in such a way that infrastructure system administrators can manage the infrastructure for the applications to be as adaptable and flexible … Read more
I’ve always needed to be able to connect into my home network remotely for one reason or another, so wanted a quick, secure and cheap VPN solution to do the trick. If you’re only going to have a handful of users connected at one time something like a Raspberry Pi is ideal for the job, … Read more
We had a rather irritating issue whereby we were seeing intermittent packet drops and connection failures on our Kemp Load Master. The Kemp Load Master sat inbetween a Palo Alto Firewall within a DMZ zone. Client connections from the Internet would be directed to the Kemp Load Master in the DMZ, which would then make … Read more
In 2015 I completed my studies with the Open University for an MSc in Computing for Commerce and Industry; this page is a holding page for any information or materials I found useful during my work and where my T802 Research Project is published to provide a link for me to refer to from other … Read more
So I took the plunge on a lease of an electric car, I’ve always been interested in electrically powered transportation, but only now has the battery technology developed to the point where it is 1. practical and 2. cheap enough to do. There’s lots of benefits to the planet, environment and health, and also the … Read more
Here is a cheeky script to drive the API on the Philips Hue lighting system to change the colour of a lamp based on the temperature. That’s right you can colour the light based on the temperature outside, quite neat so you can quickly see if its cold, hot or indifferent just by the colour … Read more
Let’s say you’ve identified a dependency that is needed on your machine, but you don’t know what package will provide the required file, you can use the “yum search <name> | grep <more granular name>” to narrow it down, but to see inside the package before install you can run the below, in my example … Read more
yum install hplip-gui hp-plugin hp-setup Follow the wizard through and setup the USB printer. https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=62564
In a continued bid to build a desktop Linux machine, I was working on getting the three monitors working. One of the monitors uses the onboard graphics, the other two are plugged into a PCI-E riser card. The issue was that the monitor type is not detected by the onboard graphics, so reports the incorrect … Read more