Networking

Within an article on their website, LinuxServer.io have announced that they will be deprecating the current linuxserver/unifi-controller public image as of 2024/01/01. Happy New Year! The README on the current tooling that I imagine most are using mentions a direct upgrade if you were using the mongoless tag which, due to what’s colloquially known as “Sod’s Law”, I am not. On the new repo as well as the DockerHub page, the docs currently have a brief mentioning of requiring an external MongoDB instance but the code snippits don’t actuall have one… This seemed a little problematic, and after migrating my setup last night, figured I’d include a quick walkthrough. ...

Twitter? Garbage. Facebook? Garbage. Do you enjoy having your data harvested and sold? No? Good. Back in the day, there was this thing called Internet Relay Chat. What if I told you… It still exists! Internet socializing without all the Silicon Valley data theft! But due to how the ecosystem works, any time you’re not actively connected to the server, you don’t receive any messages. This means that you don’t get to see conversations that happen while you’re offline, even if somebody mentions you! ...

For many years, I used NGINX as a reverse proxy. It’s pretty bulletproof as long as you have your configuration set up properly from the get-go. There’s even a number of ways to automatially create new SSL certs for new containers but this mostly has to be done in a separate container itself. This makes the process of upgrading, testing, rolling back, patching and whatnot a bit of a mither. Enter Traefik. ...

The Problem Let’s say you have a container, say for example that it’s a container you rely on to store and sync a lot of your data. Say that one day, you notice that all of your devices stop syncing and throw time out errors. Say that you’re quite frustrated with this because to a certain extent, this container stack was supposed to be set and forget. Say that you go to the web GUI and you see this: ...

We have recently begun a project to replace all of our core switches at our various remote locations. We have around 40 locations and 2 core switches for each location so, whilst not the largest undertaking, it’s an operationally significant project for a team of 1… We’ve used HP switches for a long time (we’re even still using some of the 3COM switches…) and we have a supplier that gets a good discount on these so I went shopping. Now that HPE have purchased Aruba, there’s some nicer models that we can get our hands on. We don’t have any stupidly high bandwidth requirements yet either so we’re not looking in the upper ranges, we usually stick to the SMB style switches (plus I have a hard time justifying the price increase with our use cases!). ...