Overview Recently I started playing around with OpenStack Trove which is a database as a service (DBaaS) within the OpenStack cloud computing platform. Currently, at least according to documentation only mysql and mariadb are fully supported, where postgresql is partially supported. There are experimental drivers for other databases types and there are most definitely some…
A Very Socksy Proxy
A little privacy goes a long way whether it’s for simple web browsing or using Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Sure you can simply use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to assist with anonymity, and there are plenty of those out there (I use Proton VPN), but there are certain use cases where using shared IP…
Automating Generation of IP Allow and Blocklists on an Edgerouter
So after playing around for fun on Proxmox with IPSets trying to limit traffic being forwarded by geolocation to external facing services on one of my hosts I had to look for another solution. Unfortunately using allow and blocklists created through IPSet on a Proxmox cluster is.. well.. terrible and this type of filtering should…
A Quorum Conundrum
Recently I experienced a self induced failure of one of my nodes within my Proxmox cluster. After a significant amount of troubleshooting and yielding no results I ended up re-installing the node and rejoining it to the cluster. The steps I followed to remove the node from the cluster on one of the live devices…