
My adventure with Power Over Ethernet (POE) using my Raspberry PI 3B+
I am looking into POE (Power Over Ethernet). What is required to run servers without having a power cord? I’ve been really curious, so it was fun to learn about it.

All you need to know about FastCGI Process Manager (FPM)
We look into how to set up FastCGI Process Manager (FPM). What configuration options and considerations are important.

Openstack Manual install Part 3 – Horizon dashboard and Cinder
In this video, we look into installing the Horizon dashboard and the Cinder volume storage. The volume storage will utilize Ceph as a backend, so we take a couple of extra steps for that to work.

Everything you need to know about FastCGI Process Manager (FPM)
We look into how to set up FastCGI Process Manager (FPM). What configuration options and considerations are important.

Openstack Manual install Part 2 – Glance
In this video, we will install Glance an OpenStack component required for storing your images. Glance can utilize Ceph as a backend, and we want this setup, so there are some extra steps required.

Automatic install of Redhat 9 using Kickstart
We are looking into installing Redhat 9 without any interaction using Kickstart. Kickstart is a tooling that gives you configuration options to prepare your system and manage the installation flow.

Openstack Manual install Part 1 – Prerequisits and Keystone
In this video, we go through how to install all the required prerequisite packages and Keystone.

Building my new home lab rack
We build a rack and I walk about what goes into the building process and showing the process. We also talk about networking like keystone jacks and cable management.

What is in the box? (CISCO WS-C2960-48TT-L)
I got a new fancy box with a network switch. This is just a unpacking and first impression kind of video of a bargen buy for my new rack.

All you need to know about the Crush Map
We look into how to set up a good Crush Map and handle the placement and device types of your OSDs in your clusters. The crush map describes where, what type, how much and what is your failure domain or safety requirements. One thing we will do a lot throughout this demonstration is to view […]

Manually install Openstack
This guide is the result of months of trial and error. It follows a bunch of different documentations and issue reports. If you want to follow along in video form there is a playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP2v7zU48xOJbK1HeOPxoBaxqBKtOAJB8 The machines used in this guide is one controller node with 4 CPUs, at least 10 GB of memory and […]

I really need to check php compatibility
In this video we will check for php compatibility on one of my old project and different versions of WordPress. First we need the CodeSniffer tooling, we will download it will wget. wget https://squizlabs.github.io/PHP_CodeSniffer/phpcs.phar Next we make the CodeSniffer checker executable. chmod +x phpcs.phar The plugin is fetched directly from github release page. Currently the […]