Plutono – Grafana 7.5 Fork with Apache 2.0 License

Plutono is an interactive visualization web application that provides graphs, charts and also alerts. It is based on a Grafana 7.5 fork, maintained by credativ GmbH ( NetApp GmbH ), under the Apache 2.0 license which is limited to maintenance and security updates. In 2021, Grafana switched the licensing of its core products from the Apache License 2.0 to the .... [read more] |


Released Monkey Switcher V1.2

Monkey Switcher just got released in V1.2. witch your Bluetooth capable devices like Magic Keyboard 2, Track Pad, AirPods, etc. between multiple Macs (e.g. personal & business) with a single click for macOS. This can especially be helpful to avoid connecting you wired USB-C to Lightning cable to your Magic Keyboard to establish a peering session to another Mac and .... [read more] |


Garden Linux with Firecracker Support

Now, Garden Linux comes with Firecracker (microVM) images for running heavy workloads. You may also find some more information on Firecracker within my last post. Thanks to nkraetzschmar for adding Firecracker support within the Garden Linux feature system. Next to this, the Pytest pipeline needed further adjustments as well as a new IAAS type to perform tests on microVMs. With .... [read more] |


Garden Linux with SELinux Support

While Garden Linux was running with SELinux all the time, Garden Linux finally supports running SELinux in enforcing mode. Within the last few weeks I made several adjustments to make sure we could switch from permissive mode to enforcing. By pushing the last commit , the gardenlinux-selinux-module gets reactivated in synergy with the patched refpolicy package within the Garden Linux .... [read more] |


Garden Linux with macOS Build Support

Finally, my Garden Linux PR feature(build): Add support for macOS #1013 got merged which allows building Garden Linux images on macOS regarding the underlying hardware architecture (Intel and Apple Silicon are supported). As a result, no further Linux virtual machines are needed to create artifacts. This is a big step forwards for all macOS users in usability and also speeds .... [read more] |


Monitorix behind Nginx reverse proxy

Introducing Monitorix , a versatile, open-source, and lightweight system monitoring tool that excels in overseeing a wide array of services and system resources. Originally crafted for production environments on Linux/UNIX servers, its adaptability extends seamlessly to embedded devices due to its simplicity and compact size. While Monitorix remains a stalwart choice, contemporary implementations may pose challenges. The conventional practice of .... [read more] |


Garden Linux – A CoreOS Replacement

Garden Linux is a Debian GNU/Linux derivate that aims to provide small and auditable Linux images for most cloud providers (e.g. Ali, AWS, Azure, GCP etc.) and bare-metal systems. Garden Linux is the best Linux for Gardener nodes to increase you cloud platform and replaces the legacy and discontinued CoreOS system. Garden Linux provides great possibilities for customizing and provides .... [read more] |


helloSystem – FreeBSD with a modern desktop

helloSystem is a new desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, usability and a modern design based on FreeBSD. It follows the “less, but better” philosophy and is purely welcoming users from Mac systems. However, it has been several years since I have used FreeBSD as my daily desktop system – so I worked with another BSD .... [read more] |


Ansible java_cert Module Featuring Trust CA Cert Option

With Ansible 2.10 my patch got integrated by upstream. Therefore, the Ansible module java_cert provides a new option for trusting imported CA certificates. This comes handy when you are running an infrastructure with a self signed root CA (Certificate Authority). As a result, you may define your own imported root CA as trusted which directly allows secure SSL/TLS connections between .... [read more] |


Ansible msteams Module for MS Teams Notifications

With the new ‘msteams’ Ansible callback module you may send notification to a desired Microsoft Teams chat room. This includes the start of a triggered Playbook run, as well as of the final result with more details about the executed run. This may become handy when multiple playbooks are executed periodically as a status update for the DevOp team. This .... [read more] |


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