Fixing a wedged android update - DTEK60
The other day I received a notice from my mobile device manufacture (Blackberry) of an OTA update containing security patches for my DTEK60. Excited, I rushed »
Growing BTRFS in a Logical Volume
As you may know, I run quite a few nspawn containers which are responsible for running my entire home network, entertainment system, home automation, and a »
PXE from an nspawn container
This post will cover the provisioning of a nspawn container and the installation of a tftp-hpa serving pxelinux.0. While this sounds simple enough, and there »
Lenovo X1 Firmware Updates without Windows
As you may know, I have a 4th Generation X1 Carbon and I love it. However, in order to update much of the firmware, I need »
Lenovo X1 BIOS updates without Windows
The X1 Carbon (I've the Gen 4) is a Fantastic machine and works wonderfully with Linux. I purchased my unit back in December as an upgrade »
Networkd for nspawn with OpenStack-Ansible
Within this post, I will cover the systemd-networkd aspect of the PR to create a systemd-nspawn driver within OSA. This post will be working with systemd-networkd »
Nspawn OpenStack with OpenStack-Ansible
The OpenStack-Ansible project has been around for a few years now but if you're unfamiliar with it, the TL;DR is it's an OpenStack deployment project »
Luks, Issuing & Allowing Discards, Enabling Timers, Oh My!
If you're running a system with an SSD it's likely that you've heard of trim, if you're running Linux you may have heard of the fstrim »
Rolling Restart using OpenStack-Ansible
Sometimes it's useful to do a rolling restart of OpenStack services throughout the cloud. In OpenStack-Ansible we've the means to make this easy, you just need »
NFS mount via systemd
Sometimes you feel like fstab, sometimes you don't. If you're running modern Linux and are wanting to invest all of your brain power in a systemd »
Running the UniFi controller in an nspawn container
The UniFi controller is an essential part of the Ubiquiti Networks UniFi platform. Getting this controller installed allows you access to metrics, analytics, and features you'd »
Rocket past the white whale and spawn a container
As I'm sure you're aware, Docker is all folks in the IT world can talk about and while Moby(Docker) may be everyone's obsession, there are »
Cleaning up Xenial
The folks at Canonical have created a very nice distribution of Linux named Ubuntu. This distro is used everywhere and while folks love this OS there's »
EdgeRouter Lite FTW
I've recently installed an EdgeRouter Lite 3 (ERL-3) in my home network to facilitate my internet connection and provide service to my local networks. I've setup »
AFI-R HD, the best Wifi device I've ever owned, kinda
I recently upgraded my home network after doing quite a bit of remodeling elsewhere in the house. It was time to upgrade my home WiFi and »