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Using Nginx to Negate Brute Force Attacks on WordPress Sites
Thanks to the Prometheus – Grafana combo I set up earlier for my Kubernetes cluster I noticed that there was a steep increase of requests to this blog started a few days ago. I checked my Google Analytics dashboard, sadly my blog didn’t become any popular at all. So it must be some sort of…
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Mining Ethereum with Multiple AMD 6600 XT Cards on Ubuntu Linux
Warning: Ethereum(ETH) will migrate to PoS(Proof of Stake) algorithm in near future, maybe in a year. So jumping into ETH mining now might not be profitable. Also, I encourage crypto mining with renewable energy sources and a Tesla PowerWall 2 is just a few RTX 3090s away 🙂 Note: This is a follow-up for my…
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Running Minecraft Server in Kubernetes Cluster
A month ago I had an idea to run a Minecraft server in my garage Kubernetes lab. I though it might interest my little Minecraft player at home with some Kubernetes and GitOps stuff but that failed miserably. But at least I knew how to host a Minecraft server in Kubernetes, with ArgoCD too. First…
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My nVidia RTX 3080 ThermalRight Upgrade
Recently I traded my 2x Gigabyte RTX 3070 for a Aorus Masters RTX 3080 for a set of various reasons: For Ethereum crypto mining, a 3080 can achieve ~100MHps, which is very close to what 2x 3070 can do 1x 3080 definitely consumes less power than 2x 3070 If I play games or VR, only…
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ArgoCD, Jsonnet and Tanka
Ever since I’ve installed ArgoCD in my garage Kubernetes lab, I wanted to make Tanka work with ArgoCD, so that I can do GitOps with Jsonnet, in addition to YAML, kustomize and helm charts. I was hugely inspired by(read: copied and pasted from) this blog post. Here are the steps I made Tanka worked as…
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Sideloader: An InitContainer to Sideload Stuff to Your Main Container
After having played with ArgoCD for a few days, I came cross a blog post on how to get Grafana Tanka to work with ArgoCD. I like the idea to have Tanka as a plugin of ArgoCD, because: The main ArgoCD docker image doesn’t get bloated by all those binaries we want to use with…
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Run ArgoCD with Istio Service Mesh in a Kubernetes Cluster
It’s been quite a while since I installed Flux CD V2 in my garage Kubernetes lab, as there’s a lot of debate going on between Flux and ArgoCD I decided to give ArgoCD a go. The other reason to try ArgoCD is that it supports Jsonnet. By default installation, ArgoCD will use self-signed TLS certificate…
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A Few Things I’m Grateful about Microsoft Windows
TL;DR. this is my story with Microsoft Windows, from 3.1 to 7. Many years after my mom bought me my first PC, I realized the Windows 3.1 installed by the vendor was a cracked copy, or pirate copy if you will. But Windows 3.1 was really amazing, and I liked it a lot. There were…