Author: Matt
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Building a new home for my proxy server
With my BananaPi up and running again, it’s time to put it back in the server cabinet. But it’s a little bit of a mess down there, and I decided my new 3D modeling skills could help me build a new home for the proxy. Find the Model When creating a case for things, having…
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Updated Site Monitoring
What seemed like forever ago, I put together a small project for simple site monitoring. My md-to-conf work enhanced my Python skills, and I thought it would be a good time to update the monitoring project. Housekeeping! First things first: I transferred the repository from my personal GitHub account to the spydersoft-consulting organization. Why? Separation…
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An epic journey…
I got all the things I needed to diagnose my BananaPi M5 issues. And I took a very long, windy road to a very simple solution. But I learned an awful lot in the process. Reconstructing the BananaPi M5 I got tired of poking around the BananaPi M5, and decided I wanted to start from…
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Terraform Azure DevOps
As a continuation of my efforts to use Terraform to manage my Azure Active Directory instance, I moved my Azure DevOps instance to a Terraform project, and cleaned a lot up in the process. New Project, same pattern As I mentioned in my last post, I setup my repository to support multiple Terraform projects. So…
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Building a Radar, Part 2 – Another Proxy?
A continuation of my series on building a non-trivial reference application, this post dives into some of the details around the backend for frontend pattern. See Part 1 for a quick recap. Extending the BFF In my first post, I outlined the basics of setting up a backend for frontend API in ASP.Net Core. The…
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Terraform Azure AD
Over the last week or so, I realized that while I bang the drum of infrastructure as code very loudly, I have not been practicing it at home. I took some steps to reconcile that over the weekend. The Goal I have a fairly meager home presence in Azure. Primarily, I use a free version…
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Automating Grafana Backups
After a few data loss events, I took the time to automate my Grafana backups. A bit of instability It has been almost a year since I moved to a MySQL backend for Grafana. In that year, I’ve gotten a corrupted MySQL database twice now, forcing me to restore from a backup. I’m not sure…
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My Introduction to Kubernetes NetworkPolicy
The Bitnami Redis Helm chart has thrown me a curve ball over the last week or so, and made me look at Kubernetes NetworkPolicy resources. Redis Chart Woes Bitnami seems to be updating their charts to include default NetworkPolicy resources. While I don’t mind this, a jaunt through their open issues suggests that it has…
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Environment Woes
No, this is not a post on global warming. As it turns out, I have been provisioning my Azure DevOps build agents somewhat incorrectly, at least for certain toolsets. Sonar kicks it off It started with this error in my build pipeline: I provision my build agents using the Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions runner images repository,…
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Upgrades and Mermaids
What I thought was going to be a small upgrade to fix a display issue turned into a few nights of coding. Sounds like par for the course. MD-TO-CONF I forked RittmanMead’s md-to-conf project about 6 months ago in order to update the tool for Confluence Cloud’s new API version and to move it to…