I'm running some load balancers which are using HAProxy [http://www.haproxy.org/] to distribute HTTP [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol] traffic to multiple systems. While using SSL with HAProxy [https://www.haproxy.com/de/blog/haproxy/haproxy-and-ssl/] is possible since some time, it wasn&…
Since some time I'm using cloud resources provided by OVH [http://www.ovh.com] for some projects I'm involved. Recently we decided to give Zammad [https://zammad.org/], an opensource support/ticketing solution, a try. We did choose the docker compose way [https://docs.zammad.org/…
Since ages I wanted have replaced this freaking backup solution of our Network Equipment based on some hacky shell scripts and expect [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect] uploading the configs on a TFTP [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_File_Transfer_Protocol] server. Years ago I stumbled upon RANCID…
In some cases it might be a good idea to use a reverse proxy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server] in front of a web application. Nginx [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx] is a very common solution for this scenario these days. As I started with containers for…
In case you ever wanted to look at Icinga2 [http://www.icinga.org/icinga/icinga-2/], even into distributed [https://www.icinga.org/icinga/icinga-2/distributed-monitoring/] features, without messing with installing whole server setups, this might interesting for you. At first, you need to have a running Docker on your system.…
When I was thinking about using Ghost [http://ghost.org], I did read the installations guide [https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost#quick-start-install] and then I just closed the browser window. I didn't wanted to install npm [http://www.npmjs.com/], yet another package manager, and just hack [http:…
As Jan has previously announced [https://debianstuff.dittberner.info/posts/going-to-chemnitzer-linux-tage-2014.html] , the Debian [https://www.debian.org/about/] project is maintaining a booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2014 [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2014/], which is also organized by him. This year we will have merchandising at the booth, which is…
Yesterday I asked [https://devlog.cyconet.org/2013/11/24/running-icinga-with-lighttpd-on-a-raspberry/] myself, how to setup a crossbuild environment on a Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/]/amd64 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64] to build binary packages compatible [http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianFAQ#Can_…