I was interested on how to configure IPSec connections between linux machines, mostly for having another tool in my belt, because sometimes we deploy virtual machines on customer’s infrastructure and not all services are TLS enabled, and IPSec is a way of keeping prying eyes away.

Last week I deployed a nodejs using ansible, this time I’ve put a nginx server with a self signed certificate as a reverse proxy in front of it.

I’m pretty sure there are better ways to distribute and deploy nodejs applications, but I don’t have the power to change how developers work, I can only give advice and make suggestions.

Ansible is a powerful tool, and as uncle Ben used to say: “with great power comes great responsibility” but as Wikipedia denotes it comes back from 1793 during the French Revolution.

As I mentioned in a previous post I’m preparing for the RedHat’s ex294 exam in order to get the RHCE certification before my RHCSA expires.

I’m not sure if this is going to be enough for a blog post, because once I tried pi-hole’s installation I was surprised how simple it is.

Once I had a iSCSI storage server, I focused on storage clients, called initiators on iSCSI scope.

This weekend I tried to completely rewrite how I deployed the elasticsearch cluster on my home lab.

Few days ago I checked this website with Qualys SSLlabs test tool and it scored merely a B, so I decided to raise it.

Currently I’m working with big data sets on Graylog + Elastisearch deployments, it runs smoothly when everything is fine, but dealing with backups/snapshots and maintenance tasks is complicated.