After a period on which I focused more on work, I’ve decided I need to change a bit the blog. 9 months ago I’ve migrated my blog from DigitalOcean to Github Pages. DigitalOcean was great for me when I started my first droplet, but I wanted to experiment with other technologies. So I’ve migrated my blog to Github Pages and my email to Apple Mail. But since I work a lot with CI/CD pipelines at work, I wanted to create an automated pipeline for my blog. And also wanted to switch from Jekyll to Hugo. ...

Recently I had to add more NTP servers to a HP 3PAR 7200c storage. Here’s how I did it: 3PAR_hostname cli% setnet ntp -add 10.90.221.13 NTP server successfully updated. Show current NTP server(s): 3PAR_hostname cli% shownet IP Address Netmask/PrefixLen Nodes Active Speed Duplex AutoNeg Status 10.23.155.8 255.255.255.192 01 1 1000 Full Yes Active Default route : 10.23.155.1 NTP server : {} 10.102.102.132 10.102.102.133 10.90.221.13 DNS server : None Remove one NTP server: ...

If you’re an IT professional that has to deal with old systems that have self-signed certificates you most probably had to add exceptions to your browser many times. Maybe even import those self-signed certificates locally. Unfortunately when you’re working on a customer’s jump host this is not an option. And starting with more recent version of Chrome this is not possible anymore, you don’t have the option to Add it as an exception. ...

Have you ever wanted to just start a Webserver in a second, for a quick and dirty task but didn’t want to install a full LAMP/LEMP stack? This is possible with the help of a python module and here it is in action: costin@ubuntu:~$ mkdir testare costin@ubuntu:~$ cd testare/ costin@ubuntu:~/testare$ echo MERGE! > index.html costin@ubuntu:~/testare$ pushd $PWD; python3 -m http.server; popd ~/testare ~/testare Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ... 192.168.1.126 - - [29/Apr/2020 14:16:10] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 - 192.168.1.126 - - [29/Apr/2020 14:16:10] code 404, message File not found 192.168.1.126 - - [29/Apr/2020 14:16:10] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - root@ubuntu:~# curl http://192.168.1.94:8000/ MERGE! Oh and this is cross-platform, of course. If you have python installed on a Windows machine. ...

On F5 BigIP LTM you can create a SSL profile even if you don’t know the private key passphrase This workaround can be applied only if you’ve used the private key on the same F5 BigIP node already. In my case, I had to reuse the same cert+key from a server-ssl profile on a client-ssl profile. And because business was in a hurry and they didn’t have the private key anymore, I had to find alternative ways of making it work. ...