How do you define the word love? As our nation grapples with cultural divisions, polarization, and secularization, the concept of love is often reduced to mere sentimentality or emotional attachmen...

Unleashing the Power of Nautobots Git Repository integration In previous posts, we discussed deploying Nautobot into a Kubernetes cluster and utilizing it as a Dynamic inventory for Ansible. Now, l...

Unleashing the Power of Nautobot Dynamic Inventory for Ansible I mentioned the Nautobot Ansible module briefly in the previous post, explaining how it can be utilized to manage data within Nautobot...

The Source of Truth in Automation: A Critical Foundation In the ever-evolving landscape of automation, the concept of a “Source of Truth” (SoT) has emerged as a vital element for ensuring efficienc...

Building my own cache In the previous post, I discussed how to compile NGINX with the RTMP module to enable your webcam or a static file (using FFMPEG) to stream RTMP content. Now, let’s explore a...

Building NGINX and RTMP module I am using an ubuntu 22.04 VM for this build along with this Github repo for the RTMP module. First clone the repo locally git clone https://github.com/sergey-dryabz...

CI/CD with Gitlab Part 2 In a previous post I went through the basics on getting a gitlab pipeline defined and deploying a container to my k3s cluster. The pipeline references several variables so ...

CI/CD with Gitlab Part 1 Now that I have Gitlab up and running I want to build a small CI/CD pipeline that will create an nginx container that will host my blog. The idea is that when I create a po...

Deploying Gitlab with Helm Charts In the previous posts, we create VMs for a k3s cluster, deployed the k3s cluster, added traefik for proxying requests to service, added cert-manager to handle issu...

Adding host overrides to OPNsense firewall I use OPNsense as my firewall, DHCP, DNS server for my homelab. I’ve set an internal domain that I use so that when hosts pickup a DHCP address the hostna...