Cutting through the cruft!

Background I’ve been wanting to extend my homelab capabilities with a server that I can quickly spin up virtual machines on. Proxmox seemed like a logical choice but I was undecided as to which hardware to run it on. Plus I had no idea where to put the machine so that I could have a free power socket for it and also be able to connect it to my...

Background I recently changed positions and moved from a pure software engineering role to a devops one. I’ve been working on devops task throughout my software development career and have always found them to be very rewarding hence the move. Plus I still inevitably have programming tasks when we need to customize a piece of software or create a...

So I’ve been working as a Devops engineer professionally for almost a year now. I’ve learned a lot and I want to put those skills to the test. This challenge is: Deploy a development environment with an IAC (Infrastructure as Code) tool. Create a test application comprising of a simple rest api backend and a html/javascript front end. Create a...

I recently wanted to learn more about the SNMP (simple network management protocol). This protocol has been around for decades and is widely supported throughout the industry. For that reason it’s a useful protocol to consider when you want to monitor hardware in your network.

Background We recently had a logarex smart electricity meter installed in our house to replace the old analogue one. This type of meter comes with an IR interface that you can query power comsumption values with. With a little help from an esp8266 and a IR reader/writer we should be able to make these values availabe on our home network.