Stuff and Things Blog

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

How to customise the Nunjucks environment to remove whitespace from rendered templates.

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

Install and configure the ST2 Ansible pack.

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).

A deep dive into how Azure firewalls process application rules.

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.

How to play the JNCIS-SP game and win!

The road to JNCIA Junos.

Getting started with Chef.

Activating a license on a Cisco Catalyst 8000v during the ZTP process.

Cloud managed 'It just works' they said.

This is just a quick post to demonstrate how to run a pingsweep on a Cisco IOS device using TCL.

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 review of the Framework 16 laptop.

How I fixed my sick Lenovo P14s.

Error while trying to install Ubuntu 1804 on a Dell R610 server.

Install and setup Ubuntu 1804 on Dell XPS.

Notes on Crystal Importing Code.

Notes on Crystal Structs.

Notes on Crystal Tuples.

Notes on Crystal Types.

Notes on Crystal classes.

Notes on Crystal enums.

Notes on Crystal Modules.

Notes on Crystal control flow.

Notes on Crystal Loops.

Notes on Crystal Methods.

Notes on Crystal arrays.

Notes on Crystal hashes.

Notes on Crystal Variables.

How to install Crystal on Ubuntu 2004.

AWX installation.

Jenkins installation.

Gitlab installation.

Utility server setup.

CI/CD introduction and series overview.

How to publish a docker image to docker hub.

How to use PostgreSQL with Docker for development environments.

How to install Docker engine and compose on Debian 10.

Docker CLI commands cheat sheet.

How to install Docker engine and compose on Centos 8.

Notes on Elixir keyword list.

Notes on Elixir lists.

Notes on Elixir maps.

Notes on Elixir tuples.

Notes on Elixir types.

Notes on Elixir comments.

Notes on Elixir functions.

Notes on Elixir modules.

Notes on Elixir variables.

How to create and Elixir package with Mix.

Why and how i'm learning Elixir.

How to Extrahop appliances to EVE-NG.

How to add a Palo Alto PanOS 10 VM to EVE-NG.

How to setup EVE-NG to open ZOC terminal from Firefox.

How to deploy an ExtraHop discover appliance in GCP with Terraform.

What are ExtraHop bridge triggers and how to use them.

A summary of my experience learning Go.

A record of the resources that I have used to learn Golang.

Notes on Golang types arrays.

Notes on Golang functions.

Notes on Golang pointers.

Notes on Golang structs.

Notes on Golang types.

Notes on Golang variables.

Installing Golang on Ubuntu 1804.

A collection of useful infosec related resources.

Making Eufy cameras work.

Notes on NodeJS types.

Notes on NodeJS variables.

Quick reference for NodeJS

Notes on Javascript functions.

Reseting the posts password on a Juniper EX switch running 15.1R1 - 15.1R6 code.

Firewall Filters

Junos Operating System

Protocol-Independent Routing

Routing Policy

Trace Options

Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

Juniper internal border gateway protocol config.

Juniper open shortest path first version 3 config.

Juniper external border gateway protocol config.

Juniper virtual router redundancy protocol config.

Juniper routing information protocol next generation config.

Juniper static routing config.

Juniper open shortest path first version 2 config.

Juniper routing information protocol version 2 config.

Juniper syslog config.

Juniper CLI quick reference guide.

This blog covers how to install Juniper boxes for use with Vagrant.

Helpful hints for using Libvirt.

This post will cover how I found the problem of a too-small logical volume and went about fixing it.

This is just a quick post to document the steps to install the Nvidia drivers on an Ubuntu 2404 minimal server.

How to add themes ot Fedora 36 with Gnome 42.

How to create a Kali Linux cloud-init image.

How to set the ssh algorithm and cipher options from the CLI.

How to push to multiple git repos across different git providers.

This post will cover how to create a bridge interface with netplan in order to have multiple virtual machines share the same physical interface.

Gitlab gitaly issue causing 404 and 503 errors.

How to Remove the lines with only white space from all files in a directory tree.

A collection of useful Linux shell tips and tricks

Use the ldapsearch command to query Microsoft Active Directory.

Customise a Gnome3 user shell theme.

Fix 100% CPU with CSR 1000v, vMX, etc.. VMs.

How to add Select2 to a Lucky webapp.

How to add pagination to a Lucky webapp.

How to add Font Awesome Icons to a Lucky webapp.

How to change inflections in a Lucky webapp.

How to setup UUIDs for database primary keys with a Lucky webapp.

How to add Bootstrap styling to a Lucky webapp.

Getting started with the Crystal basesd Lucky web framework.

A cheatsheet with common configurations for Mikrotik CRS326 router / switch.

How to install and configure NeoVim.

Documenting my home lab as im building it.

My SecureCRT logging config.

Links to collections of network related icons.

Use OpenConnect to access Cisco dCloud labs.

Spanning Tree Protocol

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol

Ethernet 802.3

Virtual Local Area Network

Routing Information Protocol

A generic base lab topology

IOL NETMAP file for Narbik's CCIE Routing and Switching v5.1 Workbook.

Command reference comparision between different network vendors.

Enable routing on the host in Linux with free range routing.

Configuring network components on Linux.

The components used under the hood in Openstack Neutron networks.

Address Resolution Protocol

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

What you have been told about the OSI model is a LIE!!.

How to install Node JS and Yarn on Ubuntu 2004 server.

How to install and use Node version manager on Ubuntu 2004.

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 Moonlander keyboard setup.

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 do to when MMS doesnt work on your android phone.

The eternal struggle of a beard leper.

What are my plans for 2020.

How did I go with my 2019 goals.

Vortex Race3 Key Remap

Books I have read and when I read them.

My 2019 ambition statement.

Observability for the uninitiated.

How to do stuff and things with Opengear.

Install Openstack with Packstack on CentOS 7.

Backup device configurations to gitlab.

Install and configure Oxidized.

How to install Hashicorp Packer on Linux.

Getting sh!t done from the Palo Alto CLI.

How to install the qemu guest agent in pfSense firewalls.

How to install the PostgreSQL database.

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

The basics of PowerShell.

Notes on productivity methods and resources.

How to change the IP Addresses on Proxmox cluster nodes.

Proxmox Cloud-Init with Terraform and SaltStack

How VyOS Qemu images with Proxmox.

How to mirror all traffic for a virtual switch to a VM in Proxmox.

How to fix certificate errors in Proxmox aftger replacing a node.

How to fix certificate errors in Proxmox aftger replacing a node.

Using Terraform to provision guests on Proxmox.

Using a hook script with Proxmox to start and stop a port mirror.

How to enable a port mirror on Proxmox.

How to import Extrahop virtual appliances in with Proxmox.

How to configure Open vSwitch for use with Proxmox.

How to import and use cloud images with Proxmox.

How to import a qcow2 image into Proxmox.

Building infrastructure as code with Pulumi.

VSCode Debug Python CLI Program

Install and use pyenv on Centos 8.

Schema validation with Cerberus.

Python quick reference notes.

Napalm installation and basic usage.

Install python 2.7.13 and 3.6.2 on Centos 7 minimal server.

Getting started with TextFSM for parsing CLI output

Using Jinja2 to create network device configurations.

Netmiko installation and basic usage.

How to dockerize a Rails 7 app.

How to add stimulus JS to your Rails 6 application.

Some of the gotchas when working with has_and_belongs_to_many in Rails.

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

How to paginate records on your Rails 6 application data with Pagy.

How to build forms in Rails 6 and style them with Bootstrap 5.

How to paginate records on your Rails 6 application data.

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

Add Bootstrap 5 to a Rails 6 Appliaction.

A cheat sheet for the Rails generators.

How I moved codingpackets.com form Django to Rails.

Remove Nvidia drivers from GRUB after black screen.

How to install rbenv on Ubuntu Linux 2004.

Install rbenv on CentOS 7 linux.

Use Ruby with Jupyter lab.

Install rbenv on Ubuntu1804 linux.

Install rbenv on openSUSE linux.

Ruby quick reference notes.

Notes on Rust Macros.

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

My workflow for Web developement with Rust.

In this post I will show you how to use GitLab CI to build and release a Rust binary.

How to build and release a Rust projects binary assets and Docker images using Github actions.

How and why I migrated codingpackets.com to Shazam.

Querying the Pokemon API asyncronously with Rust.

Rust Reading and Writing JSON

Rust notes on closures.

Rust Useful Links

How to load a TOML file in Rust.

Rust notes on enums.

Rust notes on hash maps.

Rust Notes: Vectors

Rust notes on structs.

Rust Notes: Traits

Rust notes on loops.

Rust notes on strings.

Rust notes on arrays.

Rust notes on chars.

Rust notes on if conditionals.

Rust Notes: Tuples

Rust notes on booleans.

Rust notes on integers and floats.

Rust notes on functions.

Rust Notes: Variables

How to manage VyOS devices with SaltStack.

Install, configure and use Salt in SSH mode.

Salt From The Start To The Beginning

A high level look at the components in SaltStack

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.

In this post I will go over the components that make up the Viptela secure extensible network (SEN) solution.

In this blog I will setup a Viptela control plane using self signed certificates for the purpose of testing in a lab environment.

This is just a quick post outlining the process to connect to network equipment via the console port using a USB to serial adapter on MacOS.

Install and configure the Starship prompt

Integrating StackStorm with Slack

Getting started with StackStorm

Using an Azure blob storage container for Terraform state backend.

Setting up a Terraform CDK environment for Azure workloads.

Connect Terraform Cloud to GitHub for version controlled workflows

In this post, I will show you how to setup Terraform Cloud to deploy infrastructure resources in your AWS environment.

Getting started with Terraform Cloud

In this post I will show you how to setup Terraform to connect to your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) tenancy to manage your GCP infrastructure as code.

Setup Terraform to manage Azure infrastructure

Install Terraform on Ubuntu 18.04

This post covers the issues I encountered trying to get Ubiquiti access points managed by my Unifi controller and the eventual fix.

In this blog I will explain the process to make multiple VLANs work with Ubiquiti WiFi when you have Juniper switches.

A quick reference guide to using yt-dlp

Helpful tshark capture commands for quick reference..

Quick reference for NMAP commands

Netcat quick reference guide.

Quick reference for TCPDump commands

How to install an Ubuntu 1804 VM on Hyper-V for use as a Vagrant server.

Vagrant Libvirt Install Ubuntu 1804

Build a Juniper vQFX 18.4R1.8 Vagrant box for use with the libvirt provider.

Host your Vagrant boxes on premises.

Vagrant Libvirt Install CentOS 7

A nice little trick to make working with Vagrant VMs a little easier by utilizing the openssh config file to define the SSH connection parameters for Vagrant VMs.

Build a Juniper vSRX3.0 Vagrant box for use with the libvirt provider.

Vagrant Libvirt Install openSUSE

How to create a Juniper vQFX Vagrant box for use with the vagrant-libvirt provider.

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.

In this post I will show you how to install a Viptela vBond/vEdge appliance for use with the vagrant-libvirt provider.

Viptela vManage Vagrant Libvirt Box Install

Viptela vSmart Vagrant Libvirt Box Install

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

Build P2P links between Vagrant guests with UDP tunnels.

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

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

Using The Libvirt Provider With Vagrant

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.

Vagrant From The Start To The Beginning

Visual Studio Code Snippets

VSCode Settings Per-Language

Building a VyOS Qemu image from the nightly ISO via Ansible

How restart the VMware (or any) network adapters from PowerShell.

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

How to enable nested virtualization in a Linux VM on Hyper-V.

How to create a windows 10 bootable USB from MacOS.

Install and configure Powerline for Ubuntu Bash on Windows 10.