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Beginning Home Automation with Home Assistant

As a techie kind of guy, I always wanted to get into the smart home game. That was what I told myself 10 years ago in my apartment. An apartment is fine for home automation, but it can be a bit limiting. Can't mess with the thermostat, replacing switches and

Creating an OpenLDAP Lab with Docker

I needed an OpenLDAP lab to test some authentication with. The bitnami container seemed alright, but I ran into problems modifying the access controls. I ended up using the osixia/openldap container and modifying it from there. I created a quick GitHub repository to store everything, which is here: https:

Using Inputs To Set Other Inputs in Morpheus

A question came up as to how to use the selection of one input to set multiple other inputs in Morpheus. The inputs were all static, so it seemed straightforward. It was a little more complex than I thought. The scenario is this: Instances created will have 3 extra variables:

Assassin's Creed 1 on Ryzen 5950X with Windows 11

Older games love to detect what hardware you have and try to figure out the best way to run. This breaks when the future comes along. Assassin's Creed 1 is the latest game I've had to tinker with to get running. You have to set the process affinity to use

Installing a Jenkins Agent as a Windows Service

Install Java 11 from azul.com: jdk 11.0.14.1 [https://cdn.azul.com/zulu/bin/zulu11.54.25-ca-jdk11.0.14.1-win_x64.msi] Create service user as Administrator: Install-Module -Name 'Carbon' -AllowClobber Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser Import-Module 'Carbon' net user jenkins /ADD Grant-CPrivilege -Identity "jenkins" -Privilege SeServiceLogonRight

Mute and Unmute Checks in Morpheus with Python

If you are using Morpheus for monitoring and you want to mute check in a Jenkins task or similar, here's a quick Python script to mute a task by name: from pymorpheus import MorpheusClient import os # env vars from jenkins secrets morpheusUrl = os.environ['morpheusUrl'] morpheusToken = os.environ['morpheusToken'] morpheusCheckName

Testing an Ansible Collection - Part 2 - Testing the Collection

There are different aspects to testing a collection you intend to publish to Ansible Galaxy. Flake8 and ansible-lint are run, and meta/runtime.yml must be present in order to successfully import your collection. Once again, test everything you can beforehand, because there is no deleting content once accepted by

Paging Morpheus API in Python

Using Morpheus' API is something that comes up very often, and there have been a few bad habits that I've noticed. I myself have been guilty of using large maximum values when hitting endpoints. eg. /networks?max=10000 I came up with the following code. It's a function than concatenates

Testing an Ansible Collection - Part 1 - Introduction and Morpheus Test Appliance

I wrote an Ansible collection for Morpheus mainly to house the inventory plugin that sources and filters inventory targets using Morpheus as a source of truth. The inventory plugin had various issues over time, and I didn't have any sort of continuous testing in place. I also wanted to have

Install Specific Package Versions with Yum and Apt

Apt-based: # Check available versions apt-cache madison # Install package by version apt-get install = -V Yum-based: # Check available versions yum list --showduplicates # Install package by version yum install -

CentOS 8 End of Life Fix

So, with the end of January 2022 comes the end of versioned CentOS from our good friends at IBM/Redhat. To make CentOS 8.5 just keep working, run this: sudo sed -i -e "s|mirrorlist=|#mirrorlist=|g" -e "s|#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org|baseurl=http://vault.centos.org|

Retag a Git Commit

Sometimes, GitHub actions are hard to test with, and it takes multiple pushes to get right. This is especially annoying when it's just the GitHub action you're trying to figure out. If you want to just re-tag a commit do this: git tag -f git push origin --force # eg. # git