Category: General

How-to: NextDNS + OPNsense Firewall

How-to: NextDNS + OPNsense Firewall

Recently I've been re-doing my home network, and I'm now using the OPNsense firewall, replacing my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 12 with a more robust solution. For OPNsense I selected the PROTECTLI FW6D platform, which has 6 ports and an Intel i5-8250U CPU. I've also been running Pi-Hole on my network for...

How-To: Wireguard VPN on the Raspberry Pi 4

How-To: Wireguard VPN on the Raspberry Pi 4

Do you want a wicked fast VPN back to to your home network that seamlessly roams between cellular/LTE and Wifi? Look no further than Wireguard. This blog post will show you how to install and configure Wireguard on a Raspberry Pi 4 and an endpoint such as your phone. I...

Time to go Solar! My Guide to Solar System Selection

Time to go Solar! My Guide to Solar System Selection

This post about Solar energy systems is going a little outside of my normal "IT" theme of this site, but it's very technical so I thought I would share. I've been doing a ton of research about going solar found all of the technical details fascinating, as well as confusing...

How-to: Pi-Hole Plus DNSCrypt Setup on Raspberry Pi 4

Note: Updated 6/28/2020 to include Gravity-sync and MacOS/iOS Pi-hole control apps. Note: Updated 11/15/2019 to optionally use the ​NextDNS.io DNS filtering and analytics service.Note: Updated 11/1/2019 for Anonymized DNS configuration, added Raspberry Pi 4 firmware update procedure, and apt package removal ​to free up more space.Recently I've become more and more...

VMworld 2019: Project Pacific (vSphere of the Future)

VMworld 2019: Managing vSphere Certificates

Notes: Although the notes from the session are not lengthy, the impact of this announcement cannot be understated. VMware has finally brought to the table slimplifed VCSA (and later ESXi) certificate management. I can't wait for the future betas to try out these new features.   New APIs for Cert...

VMworld 2019: Project Pacific (vSphere of the Future)

VMworld 2019: Project Pacific (vSphere of the Future)

​Session: HBI4937BU; Kit Colbert ​Session: HBI4937BU; Kit Colbert Unifying vSphere and Kubernetes Modern application deployments are accelerating More applications and solutions will be deployed in the next 5 years than in the previous 40. A modern application is complex: Kubernetes cluster, legacy apps, database, serverless. Challenges for developers and IT...

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