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· 9 min read

Pulling Kubernetes secrets from Bitwarden with External Secrets Operator

Use External Secrets Operator with Bitwarden Secrets Manager to sync managed secrets into Kubernetes without committing secret values to Git.

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· 10 min read

Automating wildcard TLS certificates in Kubernetes

Use cert-manager, Route 53 DNS-01 validation, and Reflector to renew and distribute wildcard TLS certificates across Kubernetes namespaces.

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· 5 min read

Polling Home Assistant to store data long term

I created a Go app to poll Home assistant and store sensor data in a database.

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· 6 min read

Running SearXNG as an alternative search engine

A guide to setting up a metasearch engine called SearXNG. No sponsored results.

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Fedora 44 upgrade

This post walks through upgrading an existing Fedora installation to version 44.

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Deploying an Astro site to AWS Amplify

This post walks through the technology stack used to deploy this blog as a website on the internet using AWS Amplify.

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