When you have an application, there’s inevitably some things that just need to be done periodically. These aren’t tied directly to user actions, so the quick answer is usually cron. It’s easy to setup, but when it breaks it can cause subtle issues that may impact your customers or application.
Author: Andrew
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter OpenVPN Client Config
One thing that’s really handy for your Ubiquiti EdgeRouter is to have it act as a VPN client. This gives all hosts on your network the ability to access the remote VPN without having to login. Setting it up with pfSense is straightforward and pretty easy with the right tools.
Staggering `chef-client` Runs
One of the new tools I’ve discovered is Chef to manage the configuration and software on Storehouse’s fleet of virtual machines. Chef makes it really handy to update and track config changes, since everything can be tracked using Git or similar. One issue we ran into was having `chef-client` run at the same time for multiple machines.
Make a Site Private, But Allow Let’s Encrypt
This is a pretty straightforward thing I’ve wanted to do for some time. Basically, I have a number of sites that I use internally that I wanted to get certificates via Let’s Encrypt, but I also wanted to keep them restricted to only a few IP addresses. The solution is quite simple and works perfectly.
Monitoring a Mount Point with Zabbix
A subtle issue I ran into was the issue that Proxmox VE would sometimes unmount a GlusterFS volume and would fail to backup. This issue was a bit sneaky though, since the PVE backup program wouldn’t execute it wouldn’t send an email notifying me of the failure. This would make it so the backups would fail silently for some time, until I happened to login and see the errors in the cluster’s log.