What is a VLAN and How Do They Help? Today we’re going to cover setting up VLANs using UniFi’s network controller.We’ll set up a VLAN, from start to finish, which includes creating a new network, ...
What is Wake on LAN and why is it so hard? After releasing my video on the PiKVM I realized that there was so much confusion about Wake on LAN, and rightfully so, that I decided to put together th...
If you’re looking to configure the TESmart switch with PiKVM, I finally figured it out and you can read all about it here. What is the PiKVM? If you don’t know what a KVM switch is, it’s a de...
What is FAST.com? FAST.com is speed test gives you an estimate of your current Internet speed. It was created by Netflix to bring transparency to your upload / download speeds and to see if your ...
What is Flux? Flux is a tool for keeping Kubernetes clusters in sync with sources of configuration (like Git repositories), and automating updates to configuration when there is new code to deploy...
What is Mozilla SOPS? SOPS is an editor of encrypted files that supports YAML, JSON, ENV, INI and BINARY formats and encrypts with AWS KMS, GCP KMS, Azure Key Vault, age, and PGP.It’s open source ...
What is Age? age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library. It features small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.It is commonly used i...
MaaS or Metal as a service from Canonical is a great way to provision bare metal machines as well as virtual machines.MaaS allows you to deploy Windows, Linux, ESXi, and many other operating system...
What Is Nested Virtualization? Nested Virtualization is a feature that allows you to run a virtual machine within a virtual machine while still using hardware acceleration from the host machine.Pu...
ZFS is a great file system that comes with TrueNAS and can meet all of your storage needs.But with it comes some complexity on how to manage and expand your ZFS storage pools.Over the last week I l...