sysadmin

Doing my cloud exit (kind of)

13 June 2025·2376 words·12 mins ·

Moving my personal infrastructure to Kubernetes (single-node k3s)

20 April 2025·3024 words·15 mins ·

Doing in-place, single-node Postgres upgrades with almost no downtime

2 March 2025·2560 words·13 mins ·

2021

How I use Tailscale to connect my devices

12 August 2021·2078 words·10 mins ·

Use netcat when the MySQL client lies to you

19 March 2021·322 words·2 mins ·

2020

Monitoring with Prometheus

11 March 2020·687 words·4 mins ·

Using a Hetzner Storage Box as a restic backend for backups

10 March 2020·441 words·3 mins ·

2019

Object storage: migrating from Wasabi to Scaleway with rclone

20 November 2019·776 words·4 mins ·

Easy web deployments with Ansistrano

16 September 2019·544 words·3 mins ·

Migrating Ghost from SQLite to MySQL

14 September 2019·320 words·2 mins ·

Caching Ghost with Nginx

26 August 2019·543 words·3 mins ·

Fixing IPv6 on Hetzner Cloud: the story of a lifetime

13 August 2019·1180 words·6 mins ·

How I fixed ZFS data corruption errors on Hetzner Cloud

9 August 2019·713 words·4 mins ·

Ansible 2.8 + snapcraft: my first big FOSS contribution!

22 May 2019·362 words·2 mins ·

Elasticsearch 6 shard/replica settings for single-node cluster

25 March 2019·160 words·1 min ·

How I did (not) recover from a data loss (featuring ZFS, LXD and PostgreSQL)

17 March 2019·1655 words·8 mins ·

Quick and easy Ansible linting CI pipeline

16 March 2019·303 words·2 mins ·

How to set up a VPN server using WireGuard (with NAT and IPv6)

27 January 2019·2545 words·12 mins ·

2018

How to configure IPv6 on FreeBSD on an Online.net Dedibox

20 December 2018·384 words·2 mins ·

How to set a static IPv4 address on a Raspberry Pi using dhcpd

18 December 2018·135 words·1 min ·

How to manually install FreeBSD on a remote server (with UFS, ZFS, encryption...)

18 December 2018·1500 words·8 mins ·

How to use encrypted block storage volumes on Hetzner Cloud

10 December 2018·1061 words·5 mins ·

How to measure a Raspberry Pi's temperature and CPU frequency with Telegraf

8 December 2018·300 words·2 mins ·

How to improve Caddy's HTTPS configuration

18 November 2018·481 words·3 mins ·

How to enable TLS 1.3 on Nginx

1 November 2018·478 words·3 mins ·

How to mount a local GlusterFS volume at boot (fstab/systemd fix)

28 October 2018·180 words·1 min ·

Terraform: How to enable "Use Origin Cache Headers" on CloudFront

11 September 2018·224 words·2 mins ·

Automatically build and push Docker images using GitLab CI

7 September 2018·1737 words·9 mins ·

How to setup a Telegram bot for your Drone CI/CD builds

29 August 2018·398 words·2 mins ·

Host your own CI/CD server with Drone

25 August 2018·1139 words·6 mins ·

How I back up my servers using restic and Wasabi object storage

29 July 2018·1410 words·7 mins ·

Enable DNSSEC support in systemd-resolved

3 June 2018·250 words·2 mins ·

Moving Mastodon's media files to Wasabi Object Storage

28 May 2018·1457 words·7 mins ·

Install Docker on a ZFS pool

2 April 2018·548 words·3 mins ·

Setup a ZFS pool on a Hetzner VM running Debian 9

2 April 2018·1122 words·6 mins ·

Monitoring with Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana

1 April 2018·1590 words·8 mins ·

Diaspora* in Docker

17 March 2018·392 words·2 mins ·

Migrating Ghost to Docker

13 March 2018·646 words·4 mins ·

Migrating Ghost from MySQL to SQLite

12 March 2018·429 words·3 mins ·

Add comments to your blog with Isso

21 February 2018·610 words·3 mins ·

Setup a ZFS pool for your LXC containers with LXD

18 February 2018·901 words·5 mins ·

Setup a network bridge for your LXC containers with lxc-net

16 February 2018·1239 words·6 mins ·

Configure the Unbound plugin for Munin

11 February 2018·302 words·2 mins ·