Stuff and Things Blog

How to resolve the file watchers error when serving an 11ty static site.

The story of how and why I migrated codingpackets.com to 11ty.

A collection of useful Ansible tips and tricks.

Install Ansible AWX on CentOS 7 minimal server.

A high level look at the components in Ansible.

Download, install and license Ansible Tower.

Convert playbook from part 1 to Ansible roles.

Build a spine/leaf network with Ansible and Cumulus.

Ansible quick start guide.

Build and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster with Terraform.

Notes on how AWS Direct Connect (DX).

Notes on AWS Transit Gateway (TGW).

Notes on AWS Virtual Private Gateway (VGW).

Notes on AWS CloudFront.

Notes on AWS Route 53 (R53).

Notes on AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB).

Notes on AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

An example subnetting plan for AWS.

An overview of AWS Networking infrastructure and services.

Notes on AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).

Hosting a static website on AWS with Route53, S3, CloudFront and Terraform.

Hosting a static website on AWS with Route53, S3 and Pulumi.

Getting started managing AWS environments with Pulumi/Go Provider.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

How to host a static site on AWS using S3 and Cloudfront.

How to redirect a URL using AWS Route 53 and S3.

Getting the AWS CLI installed and setup.

All about AWS Simple Storage Service (S3).

I deep dive into how Azure firewalls process application rules.

Connecting Azure vWAN to Paloalto VPN gateway with BGP peering.

Azure Virtual WAN Deep Dive.

Useful stuff and things related to searching Azure Application Gateway logs.

Useful stuff and things related to searching Azure Firewall logs.

Real world example of throughput on Azure when using a Cisco 8000v router.

Notes on Azure Application Gateway.

Make Bevy to use the DirectX graphics backend on Windows.

Great quotes that I would like to remember.

Interesting articles that I have read on random topics.

How I achieved the AWS Advanced Networking - Specialty (ANS-C01) certification.

How I achieved the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA) certification.

Getting started with Chef.

Cloud managed 'It just works' they said.

Tips and Tricks for Cisco ACI and other tails of pain and woe.

Using Cloudflare tunnels and Docker to publish a web service.

My notes on Algorithms and Data Structures.

My C++ reference quick notes.

Notes on Crystal Importing Code.

Notes on Crystal classes.

Notes on Crystal enums.

Notes on Crystal control flow.

Notes on Crystal arrays.

Notes on Crystal hashes.

AWX installation.

Jenkins installation.

Gitlab installation.

Utility server setup.

CI/CD introduction and series overview.

Use OpenConnect to access Cisco dCloud labs.

This page is used to visually test the sites theme and components.

My goals for 2025.

What did I do on the year of our lord 2024.

What I would like to achieve in 2024.

What did I do in 2023.

It's 2023 what's the plan dude?

What did I do in 2022.

My goals for the 2022th year of our lord and saviour Kermmit J Frog.

How did I go with my 2021 goals.

What are my plans for 2021.

How did I go with my 2020 goals.

What are my plans for 2020.

How did I go with my 2019 goals.

Books I have read and when I read them.

My 2019 ambition statement.

How to use Powershell to migrate certificates between Azure Key Vaults.

Schema validation with Cerberus.

How to add stimulus JS to your Rails 6 application.

How to add nice URLs to your Rails 6 app using Friendly ID.

How to add font awesome 5 to a rails 6 application.

Add Bootstrap 5 to a Rails 6 Appliaction.

How I moved codingpackets.com form Django to Rails.

Notes on Rust Macros.

I rebuilt codingpackets.com again ... this time with Rust BTW.

My workflow for Web developement with Rust.

How and why I migrated codingpackets.com to Shazam.

Querying the Pokemon API asyncronously with Rust.

Compare commands between the vEdge and cEdge SDWAN devices types.

Build a self hosted Cisco SDWAN lab part 2.

Build a self hosted Cisco SDWAN lab part 1.

Using an Azure blob storage container for Terraform state backend.

Setting up a Terraform CDK environment for Azure workloads.

Helpful tshark capture commands for quick reference..

Build a Cisco IOSXRv Vagrant box for use with the libvirt provider.

Build a Cisco ASAv Vagrant box for use with the libvirt provider.

Build a Cisco IOSv Vagrant box for use with the libvirt provider.

Build a Cisco CSR 1000v box for use with the libvirt provider.

Build an Arista vEOS box for use with the libvirt provider.

Control the IP address a Vagrant box receives on the management interface.

How to install a Cisco Nexus 9000v Vagrant box.

How to install a Cisco CSR 1000v Vagrant box.

How to install a Cisco ASAv Vagrant box.

How to install an Arista vEOS Vagrant box.

How to copy your SSH keys from Windows 10 to a Linux host.

How to create a windows 10 bootable USB from MacOS.