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The Polar Night is finally Over

The Kaamos, also known as the Polar Night, is the time of the year when there are at least 24 consecutive hours of darkness. Kaamos can be long in the North - 52 days.

pfSense + Cloudflare DDNS

If you do not have a fixed IP, you will need a DDNS.

Install an Alpine Desktop VM

Sometimes you need a small desktop on the cluster to do stuff. Alpine is a pure Linux OS, it's tiny. Adding a desktop, and it's there, a lightweight, minimalistic and customizable Linux experience in a VM. It uses OpenRC, not systemd. Alpine Linux is widely used

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year, 2025.

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Merry X-mas

I wish you all happy holidays and a fantastic new year 2025 🎄🎁

IaC

Terraforming Proxmox & VPS

I will outline the process necessary to set up and utilize Terraform, from HashiCorp, within Proxmox, and also how I spin up VPS instances. And a quick word about what is Ansible's role.

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Polar Night starts

Polar Night starts

We are moving

Sometimes you need to move – to bigger or smaller premises. After all the children moved out, our residence has become excessively large for the two of us. But the network speed for our sites started to be on the edge.

IaC

A Quick article on Infrastructure as Code. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning computer data center resources through machine-readable definition files.

Proxmox

The hidden lab – by VXLAN

Our Proxmox lab shall be hidden away from the wife and kids. How to use Software Defined Networking SDN, VXLAN, OPNsense and a VM to run our Lab hided away from the family. Create a personal space for testing stuff. Use Pi-hole as an alternative to other DNS.

Hardening Ubuntu

It's a harsh environment for any server out there. A fresh installation of the popular Ubuntu Server 22.04 gets a security rating of 63, far from 100. That is why the survival rate is low among home servers.

Install

Proxmox New - Install

How to Install and Configure the Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE).