I’ve started playing with Terraform in order to automate some server builds and found it to be very useful. It has its own quirks, strange JSON-like syntax and it takes some time to get fully on-board. I’ve noticed several bugs but there is always...
Let’s say you have a 10GB single disk in a VM running CentOS and you want to expand the root partition. Increase the disk to 20GB from VMWare console. This is how it will look like. You’ve added 10 extra gigs, but there are no changes. Or if you...
In this post I’ll describe how to connect/integrate your on-prem domain with Azure AD and enable SSO. So, when you want to log to your Office 365 subscription or access your Azure resources, you can just type your username and you’ll be logged on...
I’ve decided to play with the Go language and what better way to learn than to give yourself a small task and see if you can make it. So, I’ve made a small variant of the Battleship game. It’s my first project in Go and it can be much better...
In this post I’ll describe how to install Splunk on a CentOS 7.x server, join it to the AD, install SSL certificates and configure reverse proxy. In addition, I’ll install forwarders on Windows, FreeBSD and CentOS. The version of Splunk that I am...
In this post I’ll describe how to configure a VPN connection between AWS and Azure using strongswan running on CentOS 7.x. I’ll have 2 instances in each cloud for this purpose, I’ll call them vpnA, clientA in AWS and vpnB and clientB in...
Throughout the course of its development business requires changes. At the early stages, a simple website on shared hosting or VPS can work pretty well. However, needs increase with its growth. There are different reasons to consider changing a web host....
In my home lab, I run vCenter 6.7 with several ESXi hosts and since I built the lab I never did any backups. Now that my VMs are not test VMs and they became fairly important, I’ve decided to take care of the backups. Initially, I was thinking of using...
I’ve started playing with Terraform in order to automate some server builds and found it to be very useful. It has its own quirks, strange JSON-like syntax and it takes some time to get fully on-board. I’ve noticed...
Let’s say you have a 10GB single disk in a VM running CentOS and you want to expand the root partition. Increase the disk to 20GB from VMWare console. This is how it will look like. You’ve added 10 extra gigs, but...
In this post I’ll describe how to connect/integrate your on-prem domain with Azure AD and enable SSO. So, when you want to log to your Office 365 subscription or access your Azure resources, you can just type your username...
I’ve decided to play with the Go language and what better way to learn than to give yourself a small task and see if you can make it. So, I’ve made a small variant of the Battleship game. It’s my first project...