Tag: nginx

  • 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…

  • A Tale of Two Proxies

    I am working on building a set of small reference applications to demonstrate some of the patterns and practices to help modernize cloud applications. In configuring all of this in my home lab, I spent at least 3 hours fighting a problem that turned out to be a configuration issue. Backend-for-Frontend Pattern I will get…

  • Going Banana

    That’s right… just one banana. I have been looking to upgrade the Raspberry PI 3 that has been operating as home lab’s reverse proxy. While it would have been more familiar to find another Raspberry Pi 4 to use, their availability is, well, terrible. I found a workable, potentially more appropriate, solution in the Banana…

  • My 15 pieces of flair… Cloudflare

    With parts of my home lab exposed to the internet for my own convenience, it is always good to add layers of protection to incoming traffic. At a colleague’s suggestion, I took Cloudflare up on their free WAF offering to help add some protection to my setup. As a bonus, I have a much better…

  • Creating a simple Nginx-based web server image

    One of the hardest parts of blogging is identifying topics. I sometimes struggle with identifying things that I have done that would be interesting or helpful to others. In trying to establish a “rule of thumb” for such decisions, I think things that I have done at least twice qualify as potential topics. As it…

  • Tech Tip – Turn on forwarded headers in Nginx

    I have been using Nginx as a reverse proxy for some time. In the very first iteration of my home lab, it lived on a VM and allowed me to point my firewall rules to a single target, and then route traffic from there. It has since been promoted to a dedicated Raspberry Pi in…

  • ISY and the magic network gnomes

    For nearly 2 years, I struggled mightily with communication issues between my ISY 994i and some of my docker images and servers. So much, in fact, that I had a fairly long running post in the Universal Devices forums dedicated to the topic. I figure it is worth a bit of a rehash here, if…