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Nginx with TLS on OpenWRT

In the article “Install OpenWRT on your Raspberry PI”, I explained how to install OpenWRT on a Raspberry PI and the first steps as an OpenWRT user. As I plan to use my Raspberry PI to host plenty of web applications, I wanted to setup a versatile reverse proxy to protect them all, along with TLS support to meet nowadays security requirements. Continue reading

Install OpenWRT on your Raspberry PI

OpenWRT is a Linux distribution for embedded systems. It made design choices that take it apart from the usual Linux distributions: musl libc instead of the usual glibc, busybox instead of coreutils, ash instead of bash, etc. As a result, the system is very light and blazing fast! Continue reading

Feed URLs for the most common CMS: Drupal, Wordpress, WiX and YouTube

If like me you are using an RSS reader to stay informed, there is nothing more frustrating than reading a website that does not advertise an RSS feed. But since most website are based on commonly found CMS, it is highly probable the RSS feeds are there, just not advertised. Continue reading

Check the Ansible version number in a playbook

My Ansible playbooks sometimes use features that are available only in a very recent versions of Ansible. To prevent unecessary troubles to the team mates that will execute them, I like to add a task at the very beginning of my playbooks to check the Ansible version number and abort if the requirements are not met. Continue reading

Ansible: Add a prefix or suffix to all items of a list

Recently, in one of my Ansible playbooks I had to prefix all items of a list with a chosen string. Continue reading

Airgap OpenShift Installation: move the registry created using oc adm release mirror between environments

Some customers, especially large banks, have very tight security requirements. Most of them enforce a complete disconnection of their internal networks from the Internet. When installing OpenShift in such environments (this is named “disconnected” or “airgap” installation), all the OpenShift images have to be fetched (thanks to oc adm release mirror) in a dedicated registry from a bastion host that is both on the internal network and on the Internet. Continue reading

Deploying Miniflux on OpenShift

Miniflux is a minimalist, open source and opinionated RSS feed reader. There is a hosted instance available at a fair price point but wouldn’t it be cooler to host your own instance on your OpenShift cluster? Let’s do it! Continue reading

Deploying Invidious on OpenShift

Invidious is an alternative frontend to YouTube that is slimmer, faster and at the same time offer more features than YouTube itself. And even more important: it’s Open Source! There is a hosted instance at invidio.us if you want to give it a try. But, wouldn’t it be cooler to host your own instance on your OpenShift cluster? Let’s do it! Continue reading

What is this 'URL Rewriting' policy configured by the 3scale toolbox?

In this article on the Red Hat Developer blog, I explained how to deploy an API from a Jenkins Pipeline, using the 3scale toolbox. If you tried this approach by yourself you may have noticed that in some cases, the configured service includes the URL Rewriting policy in its Policy Chain. Continue reading

What is this 'Anonymous' policy configured by the 3scale toolbox?

In this article on the Red Hat Developer blog, I explained how to deploy an API from the CLI, using the 3scale toolbox. If you tried this approach by yourself you may end up, sooner or later, with a 3scale service including an Anonymous policy in its policy chain. What is this policy and why is it there? Let’s dig in! Continue reading