Keycloak Upgrade 22.0.5 -> 24.0.3

After running into more or less the same problem every damn keycloak upgrade it’s time to put some notes into place so I won’t struggle in the future anymore. At least not with the same problem.

  • Change into the root directory for keycloak

    cd /var/www
    
  • Download the latest release …

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Cfssl Cheatsheat

Generate new Server Certificates

  • Generate CSR, certificate and private key for fqdn:

    fqdn=host.domain.tld
    cfssl gencert -ca intermediate/intermediate_ca.pem \
      -ca-key intermediate/intermediate_ca-key.pem \
      -config config.json \
      -profile server certificates/${fqdn}.json | cfssljson -bare …
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Remote Work and Meeting Culture

I am really glad about the paradigm shift the pandemic brought into my workplace with regards to remote work. Being able to stay at home 80% of my time is something I grew to be fond of and it helped a lot overcoming some personally challenging situations during the pandemic. I really enjoy the …

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Migrated blog Hugo

A while ago I decided to ditch my Windows machine at home as I never really felt at home with the way Windows made me handle the system and the overall `ergonomics' of the OS. Sure, things got better with the introduction of powershell, winget and the Microsoft Terminal but still I always felt like …

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Introducing lladdr.info

At my day job I often have to resolve a MAC address to a vendor. Since a while I was using https://hwaddr.com but always had 2 gripes with the service they provide:

  1. too much advertisements
  2. can’t use it from the CLI

so I decided to embark on a journey to create my own site to give me a …

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Upgrading netbox 3.0.7 -> 3.0.10 on OpenBSD 7.0

This is more a personal reminder than anything else. Also this expects an installation following this guide.

  • stop netbox: rcctl stop netbox
  • upgrade source: cd /var/www/netbox && git pull
  • checkout 3.0.10: git checkout v3.0.10
  • adjust upgrade.sh:
    diff --git a/upgrade.sh b/upgrade.sh
    index …
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Labelling cables

There was a discussion lately at my workplace about how to label cables. Currently our cables at the datacenter sadly haven’t been labelled by the previous staff which makes tracing them a nightmare as cables tend to span multiple racks.

So I went ahead and proposed some types of labels I came …

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netbox 3.0.7 on OpenBSD 7

Ever since dywis0r made me aware of netbox I was planning on getting my hands dirty with it. But only after looking loads of videos on the topic and after being `forced’ to use it at work has I been able to finally get enough momentum going to start the journey for myself.

At the beginning of …

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Moving. Again

So I am back on Vultr. Kind of. Not that I am disappointed with hetzner but I just want to run my stuff at home just like I was doing when I started getting more into being part of the Internet and before running your mail server from home became more or less impossible. I still like thinking of the …

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Unifi Network Controller on Debian 10 (as OpenBSD guest)

Lately problems emerged with my self hosted Unifi network controller which I had been running on a Raspberry Pi. Mainly I suffered from a missing admin collection in the underlying MongoDB which rendered my controller unmaintainable as I was unable to login to the system. Further investigation …

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