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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.

aillmcodex
· 6 min read

Running SearXNG as an alternative search engine

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

searxngsoftwarecontainers
· 4 min read

Fedora 44 upgrade

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

fedoralinux
· 5 min read

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.

blogastroAWS Amplify
· 7 min read

Migrating this blog from Hugo to Astro

How and why I migrated this blog from Hugo to Astro, and what improved as a result.

blogastrojavascript
· 9 min read

Terminal AI Coding Tools

aillmterminal
· 7 min read

Manage Helm apps with ArgoCD app-of-apps

How to manage Helm applications using the ArgoCD app-of-apps pattern, including structuring Git repositories for GitOps, automating app enrollment, and best practices for maintaining Kubernetes app deployments.

containerskubernetesargoCD
· 13 min read

k3s kubernetes cluster

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· 4 min read

apcupsd_exporter forks and app setup

Forking and maintaining apcupsd_exporter and its Go client for a clean modern setup.

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· 19 min read

Store Metrics with InfluxDB v3

This post is an introduction to influxdb version 3 which is a modern time series database for storing metrics. Tips for influxdb version 1 users are included to migrate to the new version. Examples for storing and querying data are included.

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