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LinuxTek 2022 Retrospective

January 1, 2023linuxtek

Introduction I started this blog back in September 2020 when I set up some Minecraft servers on Google Cloud Platform for some online friends to play on. It turned into…Continue readingLinuxTek 2022 Retrospective

Coding Server Administration

Terraform Associate Certification – Resources and Recommendations

October 29, 2022October 29, 2022linuxtek

Introduction On Friday, I sat for the Hashicorp certification exam for Terraform Associate (002). I spent most of the week brushing up on the exam topics, and passed on my…Continue readingTerraform Associate Certification – Resources and Recommendations

AWS

Amazon Lightsail Free Credits Draw

October 17, 2022November 1, 2022linuxtek

Introduction I’ve been exploring the Amazon Lightsail services recently through these previous articles: Migrating WordPress from GCP to AWS Testing Lightsail Containers with Minecraft As part of the research, I’ve…Continue readingAmazon Lightsail Free Credits Draw

AWS Minecraft

Testing Lightsail Containers with Minecraft

October 14, 2022October 17, 2022linuxtek

Introduction After my previous article where I used Amazon Lightsail to migrate my blog to an Amazon Lightsail VPS (Virtual Private Server) instance, I decided to try out the Lightsail…Continue readingTesting Lightsail Containers with Minecraft

AWS Google Cloud Server Administration

Migrating WordPress from GCP to AWS

September 18, 2022September 18, 2022linuxtek

Introduction You may have noticed some changes to this site. Along with some style and color changes, I’ve updated the domain, and focused the pages on my technical blog. Originally…Continue readingMigrating WordPress from GCP to AWS

Server Administration

In Support of Backups: Part 2 – The Recovery

August 26, 2022August 26, 2022linuxtek

Introduction Since my previous article, while I was waiting for the replacement Dell PERC H730P Mini RAID controller to arrive, the controller failed again. The Minecraft servers again crashed, and dmesg…Continue readingIn Support of Backups: Part 2 – The Recovery

AWS

AWS Community Builder Program

August 16, 2022August 16, 2022linuxtek

Introduction I’m excited to announce that I’ve been accepted into the AWS Community Builders program! I received the email today inviting me into the program, and I’m looking forward to…Continue readingAWS Community Builder Program

Server Administration

In Support of Backups

August 9, 2022August 16, 2022linuxtek

Introduction This article is a reminder that: No matter how good the hardware you purchase is… No matter how much you build in redundancy… No matter how well you protect…Continue readingIn Support of Backups

Minecraft

Minecraft Valhelsia Enhanced Vanilla Update

July 24, 2022July 24, 2022linuxtek

Just a quick update that the Minecraft modded server running Valhelsia Enhanced Vanilla has been rerolled and upgraded to the latest version, with a brand new world. Valhelsia Enhanced Vanilla…Continue readingMinecraft Valhelsia Enhanced Vanilla Update

AWS Coding

Serverless Malware URL Checking Application

July 18, 2022March 13, 2023linuxtek

Quick Link – Github Project Introduction One of the recent challenges I took on was to build a URL lookup service. The tech challenge was stated as follows: URL lookup…Continue readingServerless Malware URL Checking Application

AWS Coding Server Administration

Accessing PostgreSQL databases using the PSQL interactive terminal

July 10, 2022July 11, 2022linuxtek

Introduction Recently, I’ve been running a lot of one-off queries for other teams who need access to data from production PostgreSQL databases hosted in Amazon RDS. I would do this…Continue readingAccessing PostgreSQL databases using the PSQL interactive terminal

Coding

Spinning up a local environment using Vagrant

July 10, 2022July 10, 2022linuxtek

Quick Link – Github Project Introduction In this post, I described steps for setting up an Ubuntu virtual machine using Virtualbox, to connect to with Visual Studio Code. This allows…Continue readingSpinning up a local environment using Vagrant

AWS

AWS Summit Toronto 2022

June 23, 2022June 24, 2022linuxtek

Introduction I found out about the AWS Summit Toronto happening June 22-23, 2022 in Toronto from a random LinkedIn post. I’m glad I came across it, and grateful to my…Continue readingAWS Summit Toronto 2022

Coding

Using Virtual Environments with Python

June 13, 2022November 9, 2022linuxtek

Introduction During some work with Lambda functions in AWS, I needed to set up a virtual environment in Python to be able to ensure the code I was using had…Continue readingUsing Virtual Environments with Python

Minecraft

Minecraft 1.19 – The Wild Update is Live!

June 12, 2022June 12, 2022linuxtek

Introduction When Minecraft 1.17 “Caves and Cliffs” was introduced in 2021, we were excited to get new cave systems and areas to explore, as well as new mobs. We had…Continue readingMinecraft 1.19 – The Wild Update is Live!

Coding

Validating Terraform Resources Using Preconditions

May 28, 2022May 30, 2022linuxtek

Introduction During a project I was working on this weekend, one of the tasks was to validate a variable by comparing it to another variable, and ensuring the number of…Continue readingValidating Terraform Resources Using Preconditions

Server Administration

How to extract a Western Digital hard drive from an EasyStore USB enclosure

May 17, 2022May 17, 2022linuxtek

Introduction For mass storage in a homelab, a central Network Attached Storage (NAS) server is typically a good way to go. This can be a commercially purchased unit such as…Continue readingHow to extract a Western Digital hard drive from an EasyStore USB enclosure

AWS Coding

Encryption and Decryption using AWS Key Management Service

May 11, 2022May 11, 2022linuxtek

Introduction Recently, I was working on getting a Terraform module set up to create resources to ingest AWS CloudWatch logs for Splunk. The process of preparing the HEC token used…Continue readingEncryption and Decryption using AWS Key Management Service

Coding Server Administration

PLEX Media Server and Bash commands for file organizing

April 9, 2022April 28, 2022linuxtek

Introduction This weekend, I set up a PLEX Media Server to be able to share my legally acquired Linux ISO Collection to some friends and family. It would also let…Continue readingPLEX Media Server and Bash commands for file organizing

Coding Minecraft

Lessons Learned – Minecraft , Ansible, Crashes, Debugging

April 3, 2022April 28, 2022linuxtek

Quick Link – Github Project Repo Introduction Valhelsia Enhanced Vanilla maintenance update 1.1.2 has been released with a number of fixes and changes. We’ve been experiencing frequent crashes on the…Continue readingLessons Learned – Minecraft , Ansible, Crashes, Debugging