I’ve recently started testing Netdata, a real-time performance monitoring and diagnostics tool for systems and applications. So far, I’m impressed with its comprehensive metrics collection and intu...
Today, I’m going to show you how to install Ansible on a Mac, and prepare a target Ubuntu server with SSH authentication, which will make using Ansible easier in the future. There are many ways to ...
TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 (Electric Eel) If you’re like me, you want to start using Docker Compose right away on the new release of TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 (Electric Eel). The main reason is that I already ...
Have you recently moved from a PC to a Mac and noticed that when using MS Teams, things are just a bit different? Well, some of this can be expected, of course. However, one thing that was driving ...
Hello All! This is a quick update post. The goal is to passthrough the MS-01 iGPU. Anytime I find it hard to find the answer (Google’ing) to my problem and get it sorted, it seems best to complete...
Configure Minisforum MS-01 BIOS to Enable Intel® AMT/Intel® vPro™ Before diving in, I want to mention that I made several adjustments to the power management settings. While my objective wasn’t to...
Introduction In this post, I demonstrate how to leverage a fairly simple Python script that utilizes the power of Ollama—a self-hosted AI system—along with the Gmail API to read and summarize emai...
Summary This Ansible playbook automates the deployment and setup of essential components on an RKE2 cluster, including Helm, Cert-Manager, Traefik, and Rancher. It centralizes variable management t...
Introduction Have you ever needed to monitor your external IP address? How about if you have an IPsec VPN that you need to maintain? Below, I will walk you through how I put together a solution th...
In this post, I will briefly walk through setting up Semaphore UI (SemUI) in a Docker container, then configuring the basics of SemUI to allow for running Ansible scripts, and finally reviewing the...