Docker Swarm Tutorial and Examples
A bit of background and the “old/normal way” If you use Docker, you very quickly run into a common question: how do you make Docker work across multiple hosts, datacenters, and different clouds. One of...
View ArticlePlex server on a VPS Docker setup without port forwarding
Recently I tried setting up a Plex server in a docker container. The first problem was the 127.0.0.1:32400 bind which required logging in locally or port forwarding. After doing this once, I realized...
View ArticleDocker Swarm Tutorial with Consul (Service Discovery) and Examples
If you have not used Swarm, skim the non-service-discovery tutorial to get a feel for how it works: https://blog.vpetkov.net/2015/12/07/docker-swarm-tutorial-and-examples. It’s very easy, and it should...
View ArticleMonitor Docker resource metrics with Grafana, InfluxDB, and Telegraf
I needed a way to monitor Docker resource usage and metrics (CPU, Memory, Network, Disk). I also wanted historical data, and ideally, pretty graphs that I could navigate and drill into. Whatever the...
View ArticleThe perfect OpenConnect GUI Menu Bar App with 2FA/Duo support – for Mac OS X
You need to connect to a Cisco AnyConnect (or Juniper Pulse Connect) VPN, and you cannot stand the default client for a variety of reasons (slow connects, crashes, unable to start, pointless pop-up...
View ArticleDIY – Monitor Heating Oil Tank Gallons with Pushbullet, SMS, and Email Alerting
In this day and age where everything is measured, recorded, and available remotely (via a REST API most of the time!), it really bothered me that our heating oil tank measured the remaining gallons of...
View ArticleEasy fully automated WordPress plugin update system
A long time ago I became frustrated with having to update my WordPress plugins manually, so I created a Perl script and a blog post...
View ArticleMassive Apple FaceTime vulnerability – turn any iPhone/iPad into a remote...
If you did not know about this – you should be very worried. A few hours ago it was discovered that Apple’s FaceTime app allows anyone to connect to any Apple device that supports FaceTime and hear...
View ArticleNetflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Latest Default Chromium
UPDATE: Last library re-extracted from ChromeOS on: 8-15-19 — confirmed that it works perfectly with the latest version of Chromium! The Raspberry Pi 4 model with 4GB of RAM is the first cheap hardware...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Netflix One Line Easy Install – along with Hulu, Amazon Prime,...
Last Update: 4-7-20 | Fixed screen tearing If you just want to take a Raspberry Pi 4 (as of today!) and turn it into a fully functional “Media” center by just pasting one line, here it is: SSH to your...
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