A while back, scrolling through YouTube, I stumbled across a video titled "High Availability Pi-Hole? Yes Please!", which I thought was interesting - it seemed to address a problem that I didn't really think I had.. but why not poke around at it? Pi-Hole is a network-wide ad blocking DNS server. It can …

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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 …

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I attended the "VS Code Day" event through Meetup, and learned about a neat new function of the IDE for developing in a container. The session was neat and interesting, and opened my eyes up a bit as to what Microsoft intends you to use VSCode for. When thinking about the session afterwards, I was trying to …

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A while ago, I got really sick and tired of dealing with the hardware that Telus shipped me for my residential gateway, and so a new "internal" router was added. Things were good, but then I wanted to do network-wide ad blocking (to deal with ads on streaming devices...), but found that even if I specified an …

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How I got here... Part of the whole effort to mess around with Docker was to get a better understanding of what people do for continuous integration and continuous deployment - CICD. There are no shortage of services online that do this for you - Github, Azure Devops, Bitbucket.. are all names that are familiar in …

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So, as it turns out, solving the ToDo's from my last posting was pretty easy. Traefik solved most of the todo's / desired outcomes: Internal ports 80 and 443 were already occupied by other services, such as my wiki, Git repo, etc. Putting these in a container, and letting Traefik handle the path mapping addressed this. …

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Learning Docker

I'm still getting my feet wet with Docker, and using it to post my blog page, as well as a few other services that I run for my own usage.. but it didn't take me long to find out about the rate limit that was implemented in early November this year.
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