-
Deploying WordPress with SUSE CaaS Platform
Introduction While you may never have a reason to deploy WordPress on CaaSP, the following exercise will give you a way to see how persistent storage, deployments, and NodePort networking work in Kubernetes work. It is my belief that a decent understanding of the theory around Kubernetes is useful, but an actual hands-on understanding will […]
-
Stupid Script
I just cobbled this script together to make starting up VirtualBox VM’s a little easier when remote. for a in `vboxmanage list vms | sed ‘s/^”\(.*\)”.*/\1/’`; \ do echo $a && vboxmanage showvminfo $a | grep -c “running (since” ;done This will give you a list of all of your VMs. Followed by a 1 […]
-
What are these very old posts?
Recently I imported posts from my old Ham Radio/Tech blog: ki4gmx.wordpress.com. They are ancient, but they are important to me to keep. I am slowly going through some of the posts and updating links. If you see two links in a row with one of them struckthrough, the that one is the old link. The […]
-
What is a CVE and How Can It Benefit Me?
Like a lot of the things that I write here, this is a question that came up in a ticket that I worked on recently. A customer recently received a message like this: Samba is a freely available file- and printer-sharing application maintained and developed by the Samba Development Team. Samba allows users to share […]
-
About Patching: What is a Patch in SLE and OpenSUSE?
A while back I wrote a post on why you should patch your servers. I think it surprised some people. I got at least one comment from twitter saying, “I’m surprised you get so many tickets on this topic since security is so important in enterprise server environments.” And yet, we do. At any current […]
-
On writing dockerfiles
I came across an email yesterday before I went home in our internal Docker mailing list. The author was looking for a Tomcat container written using SLES as a base-image. I didn’t remember coming across anything like that so I checked dockerhub. There were several there, but most of them, including the official one from […]
-
How can I get Malware?
I received an email this morning. I’m actually expecting a package that has been held for some time and when I saw it, it seems potentially legit at first. But then I realized that I don’t use my work email for personal things like that. When I saw that it came from someone who didn’t […]
-
Why Should I Patch My Server?
Wait, what? Why should I patch my server? Because you won’t get bug fixes. But my server works just fine, if it’s not broken don’t fix it, right? What about security fixes? My server isn’t accessible from the internet. I’m not worried about it getting hacked. But it’s still possible, right? Do you really want […]
-
SUSE Documentation
Did you know that SUSE provides free documentation for all of our products to the general public in multiple languages and in multiple formats? Not only that, it is released under the GNU Free Documentation or under a Creative Commons license. As a big fan of the work that the Creative Commons folks do, this […]
-
How Low Can You Go?
Every since my days on dial-up internet and telnet MUD’s, I’ve always been interested in low-bandwidth utilities. After all, not every user get’s to live in an area that provides unlimited high-speed broadband. Some, like those who depend on cellular or satellite internet, have to choose between work and watching a few YouTube videos. This […]