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vim-hue: colorful Vim config for all your SRE/DevOps needs

February 27, 2019

I can’t say I’ve been using Vim from my early Linux days in 1999. In those days I found Vim to be a bit … overwhelming. Not easy to navigate, or configure, not to mention quitting it. So I just stuck with pico or today’s nano and various other IDE’s (see if you recognize any of maintainers names).

However, once I did discover everything Vim was capable of, from that day onwards Vim has been my default editor. Hence, for last decade my Vim configuration has only been growing which I would copy over on a new workstations as part of my dotfile backups.

I wanted to stop process of deploying my Vim configuration by simply copying over configuration. Also since configuring Vim to this day can still be cumbersome and is prone to errors. I’ve decided to create an installer which will seamlessly setup Vim with configuration I need for my workload.

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Automated way of getting Let’s Encrypt certificates for WordPress using Docker + Ansible

March 10, 2018

From security reasons, over feature requests, to announcement that Chrome 68 will render all HTTP sites as “not secure” in beginning of July … it’s obvious this is where the web is heading and it had to be done.

For HTTPS encryption, my obvious choice was Let’s Encrypt which I wrote about in past, so without further ado let’s get right to it.

containerized-wordpress-project: Let’s Encrypt update

Few months ago I launched containerized-wordpress-project which let’s you “automagically deploy & run containerized WordPress (PHP7 FPM, Nginx, MariaDB)”.

In latest update I’ve added support for Let’s Encrypt which allows you to have HTTPS encrypted sites/blogs out of box.

I rewrote Nginx container image deployment which now relies on https-portal. Result is updated containerized-wordpress Ansible role whose major updates are to its Docker Compose file as well as deployment of Let’s Encrypt enabled Nginx configs.

For existing sites HTTPS integration is seamless, every HTTP link is automatically redirected to its HTTPS counterpart and certificates will be renewed automatically.

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Automagically deploy & run containerized WordPress (PHP7 FPM, Nginx, MariaDB) using Ansible + Docker on AWS

May 21, 2017

Update: containerized-wordpress-project comes with enabled HTTPS site encryption using Let’s Encrypt certificates.

In this blog post, I’ve described what started as simple migration of WordPress blog to AWS, ended up as automation project consisting of publishing multiple Ansible roles deploying and running multiple Docker images.

If you’re not interested in reading about my entire journey, cognition gains and how this process came to be, please skim down to “Birth of: containerized-wordpress-project (TL;DR)” section.

Migrating WordPress blog to AWS (EC2, Lightsail?)

Since I’ve been sold on Amazon’s AWS idea of cloud computing “services” for couple of years now. I’ve wanted, and been trying to migrate this (WordPress) blog to AWS, but somehow it never worked out.

Moving it to EC2 instance, with its own ELB volumes, AMI, EIP, Security Group … it just seemed as an overkill.

When AWS Lightsail was first released, it seemed that was an answer to all my problems.

But it wasn’t, disregarding its bit restrictive/dumbed down versions of original features. Living in Amsterdam, my main problem with it was that it was only available in a single US region.

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Secure (HTTPS) public access to Synology NAS using Let’s Encrypt (free) SSL certificate

February 17, 2017

Secure public access to your Synology?

Every time I’m outside of my home network, and I need to get something from my Synology NAS, I’m facing the same dillema. Who’s sniffing the network I’m on, and who will I hand over my credentials in plain text using HTTP.

Of course, you can add extra security to your Synology account by using 2 step authentication, or first establishing connection to (preferably private) VPN connection. But even then … footprint of sensitive data you’re leaving behind you is just not worth it.

To resolve this problem, you could get a self-signed SSL certificate, but whole process will cost you time and money. But thanks to good people at Let’s Encrypt, this whole process now takes 15 minutes process and is free!

Secure (HTTPS) access to Synology NAS using Let’s Encrypt (free) SSL certificate

There are couple of tutorials which cover this same topic, however reason why I wrote my own is because none of them worked for me.

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Kernel agnostic, DisplayLink Debian GNU/Linux driver installer (Debian/Ubuntu/Elementary)

November 29, 2015

I use DisplayLink at work for multi display setup/Ethernet/etc, all by connecting to a single USB port. Although it’s a nifty little device, its software support isn’t that great.

Only Linux driver they have is for Ubuntu. Which is only optimized to work with 14.04, and latest kernel they support is 3.19!

Their installer script can be modified to work with Debian and Systemd, but even so if you’re using any Linux kernel version other then >=3.14 && <=3.19 you’re not going to have a good time.

displaylink-debian (github)

That’s why I decided to take things in my own hands, and created displaylink-debian.

Tool which allows you to seamlessly install and uninstall DisplayLink drivers on Debian/Ubuntu based Linux distributions.

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