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OneDev on ECS

2024-09-15 7 min read Kuba Wołynko
Welcome At the beginning of September, I saw a post from Johannes Koch about self-hosting CodeCommit alternative. Then I realized, that I’m using my home, not such a popular, but very nice and solid git repository system. To be more precise, much more than a git server. Let’s welcome OneDev. Git server with CI/CD, kanban, and packages. They also support repo tags, and groups like GitLab. The project is also very resource-friendly, and I’ve been using it for a while on my home server. Continue reading

Information flow

2024-08-26 7 min read Kuba Wołynko
Welcome This post will be different, than usual. It will be soft, flexible, and with late summer vibes. Please stop coding, deploying, or whatever is important you’re doing. That will be the most helpful post you will read today! Let’s talk about being old, or more correctly about seniority. What will distinguish you as a person with 10 years of experience in your job with newcomers with 6 months? Probably first things that will come to your mind will be: Continue reading

Meetings on demand

2024-07-24 7 min read Kuba Wołynko
Welcome Yesterday I decided to solve another, probably non-existent problem. So for quite a long time, I was looking for a solution that would allow me to schedule meetings with friends, family, and clients (the custom domain looks very professional). Most of them are paid every month. Which in my case is not a very cost-effective solution, if I have one meeting per month, sometimes two. Also let’s assume, that being an AI learning material for Google, or Zoom isn’t my dream position. Continue reading

Install Keycloak on ECS

2024-06-20 10 min read Kuba Wołynko
Welcome If you have read my latest post about accessing RHEL in the cloud, you may notice that we’re accessing the cockpit console, via SSM Session manager port forwarding. That’s not an ideal solution. I’m not talking in bed, it’s just not ideal(but cheap). Today I realised that using Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser could be interesting, and fun as well. Unfortunately, this solution required an Identity Provider, which can serve us with SAML 2. Continue reading

Manage my cheap TLD with Route53

2024-06-16 5 min read Kuba Wołynko
Welcome While writing a post about setting up Keycloak, which should be live this month(it’s a bit harder, than I thought), I decided that it would be great to use my custom domain and play with it as well. As having sso.3sky.in looks cool, also unexpectedly it’s quite cheap. But why do I need it? It’s like 10$ per domain. Yes and no. One of the Community Builder program benefits is a voucher for 500$ which can be used within a year, on AWS services. Continue reading

rhel on cloud

2024-05-23 9 min read Kuba Wolynko
Let’s talk about basic IT operations included in the everyday tasks range. For example, accessing VMs. As you may realize (or not) - not everyone is using immutable infrastructure. Especially when their core business isn’t IT, and they are a bit bigger than 2-pizza team. That is why today we will talk about accessing the console of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 in AWS Cloud. I will show you the 3 most useful methods - in my opinion; there are no statistics. Continue reading

DNS as code

2024-05-20 8 min read Kuba Wolynko
Welcome Looks like I have 10 days to create 2 blog posts. To be open, it’s another attempt to become a creator, who makes at least 12 posts per year. Also, I decided, to make my write-ups a bit shorter and focused on one particular topic. That is why, today I will show you how to migrate existing Cloudflare configuration into OpenTofu manifests and make it even more cool with Scalr. Continue reading
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