At work, we use ZFS for our High-Performance Compute cluster and was asked to investigate making some changes. As I was doing my research, I started to really like what I saw.

At the time of writing, Buster is EOL in four months, 30 June, 2024. Bullseye is EOL until 2026 and Bookworm's EOL is 2028. For this entry I chose to go with Bullseye because I wanted to install Foreman on my backup server, which does not support Bookworm yet.

Although this is specifically written for upgrade from Debian 10, Buster to Debian 11, Bullseye, this can be applied to upgrading any version of Debian. 

Configure smartd to email alerts when a drive is failing.

Explains the process of enabling XDebug and configuring PHPStorm and VSCode to debug laravel applications running in Laradock.

Send all HTTP requests through a Proxy to bypass a firewall.

A while ago I wanted to learn how to set up my own Kubetnetes cluster. I quickly found that there were wasn’t a single “right” way to do it. I was looking for a guide that would walk me through the steps of standing up a generic cluster with the most commonly used components. However, each guide I found was always different and tended to rely on tools to bootstrap the cluster and left it there. 

In this article I describe how to mount different partitions from a raw disk image.

This guide will give you the basic outline on how to update Gentoo Linux.

In the following, I will show how to consume web services in a few ways. For a more in-depth guide to better understanding how web services work, I recommend reading the following resources:

How to set up a borg repository for encrypted and deduplicated backups.