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    • Nessus Essentials on Tanzu Community Edition

      calendar Feb 7, 2022 · 4 min read · vmware kubernetes tanzu containers security  ·
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      Nessus Essentials on Tanzu Community Edition

      Now that VMware has released vCenter 7.0U3c to resolve the Log4Shell vulnerabilities I thought it might be fun to run a security scan against the upgraded VCSA in my homelab to see how it looks. Of course, I don't actually have a security scanner in that environment so I'll need to deploy one. I start off by heading to …


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    • Logging in to a Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes Cluster from a new device

      calendar Feb 1, 2022 · 3 min read · vmware kubernetes tanzu  ·
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      Logging in to a Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes Cluster from a new device

      When I set up my Tanzu Community Edition environment, I did so from a Linux VM since the containerized Linux environment on my Chromebook doesn't support the kind bootstrap cluster used for the deployment. But now that the Kubernetes cluster is up and running, I'd like to be able to connect to it directly without the …


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    • Enable Tanzu CLI Auto-Completion in bash and zsh

      calendar Feb 1, 2022 · 2 min read · vmware linux tanzu kubernetes shell  ·
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      Enable Tanzu CLI Auto-Completion in bash and zsh

      Lately I've been spending some time getting more familiar with VMware's Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes distribution, but I'm still not quite familiar enough with the tanzu command line. If only there were a better way for me to discover the available commands for a given context and help me type them correctly... …


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    • Recreating Hashnode Series (Categories) in Jekyll on GitHub Pages

      calendar Jul 24, 2021 · 9 min read · meta jekyll  ·
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      Recreating Hashnode Series (Categories) in Jekyll on GitHub Pages

      I recently migrated this site from Hashnode to GitHub Pages, and I'm really getting into the flexibility and control that managing the content through Jekyll provides. So, naturally, after finalizing the move I got to work recreating Hashnode's "Series" feature, which lets you group posts together and …


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    • Using VS Code to explore giant log bundles

      calendar Feb 18, 2021 · 2 min read · logs vmware  ·
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      Using VS Code to explore giant log bundles

      I recently ran into a peculiar issue after upgrading my vRealize Automation homelab to the new 8.3 release, and the error message displayed in the UI didn't give me a whole lot of information to work with: I connected to the vRA appliance to try to find the relevant log excerpt, but doing so isn't all that …


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    • PSA: halt replication before snapshotting linked vCenters

      calendar Jan 30, 2021 · 3 min read · vmware  ·
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      PSA: halt replication before snapshotting linked vCenters

      It's a good idea to take a snapshot of your virtual appliances before applying any updates, just in case. When you have multiple vCenter appliances operating in Enhanced Link Mode, though, it's important to make sure that the snapshots are in a consistent state. The vCenter vmdird service is responsible for …


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    • Burn an ISO to USB with the Chromebook Recovery Utility

      calendar Dec 23, 2020 · 2 min read · chromeos  ·
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      Burn an ISO to USB with the Chromebook Recovery Utility

      There are a number of fantastic Windows applications for creating bootable USB drives from ISO images - but those don't work on a Chromebook. Fortunately there's an easily-available tool which will do the trick: Google's own Chromebook Recovery Utility app. Normally that tool is used to creating bootable media to …


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    • Abusing Chrome's Custom Search Engines for Fun and Profit

      calendar Sep 24, 2020 · 3 min read · chrome  ·
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      Abusing Chrome's Custom Search Engines for Fun and Profit

      Do you (like me) find yourself frequently searching for information within the same websites over and over? Wouldn't it be great if you could just type your query into your browser's address bar (AKA the Chrome Omnibox) and go straight to the results you need? Well you totally can - and probably already are for certain …


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    • Finding the most popular IPs in a log file

      calendar Sep 13, 2020 · 3 min read · linux shell logs regex  ·
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      I found myself with a sudden need for parsing a Linux server's logs to figure out which host(s) had been slamming it with an unexpected burst of traffic. Sure, there are proper log analysis tools out there which would undoubtedly make short work of this but none of those were installed on this hardened system. So this …


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    • VMware Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes Platform in a Homelab
    • Secure Networking Made Simple with Tailscale
    • Burn an ISO to USB with the Chromebook Recovery Utility
    • Setting up Linux on a new Lenovo Chromebook Duet (bonus arm64 complications!)

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    • Logging in to a Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes Cluster from a new device

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