Enabling Docker in Fedora 31 by reverting to cgroups v1
Fedora has switched to cgroups v2 by default now, but Docker doesn’t yet support it and so fails to start. If you want to use Docker then you need to […]
Read moreUse swap on NVMe to run more dev KVM guests, for when you run out of RAM
I often spin up a bunch of VMs for different reasons when doing dev work and unfortunately, as awesome as my little mini-itx Ryzen 9 dev box is, it only […]
Read moreUsing pipefail with shell module in Ansible
If you’re using the shell module with Ansible and piping the output to another command, it might be a good idea to set pipefail. This way, if the first command […]
Read moreRunning a non-root container on Fedora with podman and systemd (Home Assistant example)
Similar to my post about running Home Assistant on Fedora in Docker, this is about using podman instead and integrating the container as a service with systemd. One of the […]
Read moreMonitoring OpenWrt with collectd, InfluxDB and Grafana
In my previous blog post I showed how to set up InfluxDB and Grafana (and Prometheus), please see that post on how to configure them. This is how I configured […]
Read moreSetting up a monitoring host with Prometheus, InfluxDB and Grafana
Prometheus and InfluxDB are powerful time series database monitoring solutions, both of which are natively supported with graphing tool, Grafana. Setting up these simple but powerful open source tools gives […]
Read moreInstall newer git from software collections and enable globally
Work on Linux almost always means git for me, but the version provided by CentOS and RHEL is too old. Software collections is a convenient way to get a newer […]
Read moreSecuring Linux with Ansible
The Ansible Hardening role from the OpenStack project is a great way to secure Linux boxes in a reliable, repeatable and customisable manner. It was created by former colleague of […]
Read morePi-hole with DNS over TLS on Fedora
How to use Pi-hole with Stubby to provide both advertisement blocking and DNS over TLS. I’m using Fedora ARM server edition on a Raspberry Pi 3. Download Fedora Server ARM […]
Read moreRunning Home Assistant on Fedora with Docker
Home Assistant is a really great, open source home automation platform written in Python which supports hundreds of components. They have a containerised version called Hass.io which can run on […]
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