Stuff So it's been a little while since I've tinkered with this stuff, so I've been self-refreshing myself as I go along here. The big catalyst for this work was the release of Proxmox 8. The key takeaway during the upgrade is that it's a typical Debian upgrade, and so it went more or less without incident. Great! The …

Whelp, I'm not really certain how I got here.. but at some point, I wound up with a pair of computers running Proxmox with the intent of running Kubernetes. It started out pretty innocently: I watched a TechnoTim video: And it looked neat enough, so sure.. why not, let's try that out. In the video, around the 6:00 …

One more issue to solve... We have one domain controller at work that is kinda critical to the entire operation. I mean, not like this particular server is the only AD server on the site, but it somehow became only LDAPS server responsible for authentication for non-AD enabled services. Like VPN. Like our ERP. So when …

More on the host configuration In my last post on this topic, I had left a to-do to get LetsEncrypt setup and running on the host. After spending quite a bit of time on the effort and learning what tools were at my disposal, I figured out (pretty late in the process) that.. my initial approach had a considerable flaw: …

Backstory I think just about everyone of my posts I start with some sort of justification why I'm writing the post. I don't really know why .. other than I think it serves as a good reminder of what I was doing when I wrote the darned post ... As usual, these things start off at work. We had a bit of a security audit …