Having been playing with Docker recently and ended up down the root/rootless container rabbit hole, I then stumbled across Podman. Quadlets Whilst rootless Podman can work with your existing docker-compose.yml file, v4.4 (I believe) and newer allow you to write Quadlet files which are turned into systemd services. You can then stop / start containers using systemctl rather than docker...
I’ve recently been looking at Caddy as a reverse proxy server and I wanted to have an IP based whitelist to restrict access to a website Caddy is proxying. To make amending the whitelist easier, I wanted to put the IPs into a separate file. Allow File This is called allowlist.caddy and I place it in the same directory as...
The acme.sh script / utility is very useful when working with (free) SSL certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt (LE), ZeroSSL and other providers. It’s featured in a number of the guides I’ve written and a quick search will turn up lots of content, but this is to bring my notes together into one place. As ever, replace mylab.domain and server.mylab.domain...
Pi-Hole v6 stops using lighttpd and has it’s own internal web server, so this means a change getting Let’s Encrypt certificates deployed. Having finally upgraded my Pi-Hole install to v6, I needed to tidy this up. We no longer need acme.sh to renew the lighttpd certificate, so to see the current renewal job, run: Pi-Hole needs the certificate and private key...
I wanted to get the result of a PowerShell (PS) script into PRTG to monitor the result of the script. This proved to be more challenging than I expected, mainly as there are some “gotchas” if you are running the script on a remote server/PC using the PRTG Remote Probe. The key things which I learnt (aka tripped me up!)...
I’ve spent an age going round the houses to find the right PowerShell Graph SDK commands to retrieve a list of the contents of the root of a Personal OneDrive (ie not OneDrive for Business!). I was trying get MgDriveItem, but some trial & error, plus using the Graph SDK Explorer eventually turned up the right commend Remove the -debug...