https://jamdoog.github.io/A blog about cool technologies I have recently deployed. 2025-01-01T00:34:54+00:00 James https://jamdoog.github.io/ Jekyll © 2025 James /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2024-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 2025-01-01T00:34:22+00:00 https://jamdoog.github.io/posts/configuring-freeipa-ldap-with-ansible-automation-platform-25/ James

Introduction This is a quick blog post to highlight integrating FreeIPA’s LDAP(S) into the recent Ansible Automation Platform 2.5. This also applies to RedHat’s Identity Management (IDM) which is their commercial version of FreeIPA. While documentation of the LDAP provider exists, I could only find 1 example of this online from a few years ago. This post is more of a reference point then a ...

2022-05-26T00:00:00+01:00 2023-03-18T13:27:33+00:00 https://jamdoog.github.io/posts/guest-agent-on-pfsense/ James

A piece of software I always found fascinating about hypervisors was the concept of a guest agent. The first example I recall was file sharing from a VMWare Host to Guest on Workstation which seemed genius, removing the need for either USB or Network approaches to traditional file sharing. Forward to now, my virtualization needs have since expanded to a completely seperate home server with P...

2021-09-30T00:00:00+01:00 2023-03-18T13:27:33+00:00 https://jamdoog.github.io/posts/scaleway-s3-stardust/ James

This post is not meant to be used in a production workflow. I just wanted to show how you can host some data for practically free while being under your OWN terms I have a problem with renting too many virtual servers purely because they are cheap and after recently discovering Scaleway’s offer of a 1GB VPS for £0.30 a month, I had to find a use for some of the idling compute. These “Star...

2021-08-17T00:00:00+01:00 2023-03-18T13:27:33+00:00 https://jamdoog.github.io/posts/securing-ssh-with-a-jump-host/ James

*Disclaimer: At the time of writing this, Wireguard is not in stable repositories of some distribution. * **Secure Shell (SSH) **is a useful utility which allows administrators to remotely control a plethora of devices ranging from routers to UNIX servers without exposing credentials in plaintext. Today, the majority of LINUX and UNIX based systems run a implementation of SSH called OpenSSH....

2021-07-04T00:00:00+01:00 2021-07-04T00:00:00+01:00 https://jamdoog.github.io/posts/pfsense-sriov/ James

Introduction Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a technology that was developed in order to split up physical PCI devices into multiple separate PCI devices. In a virtualization stack, it allows us to remove the VMM layer of virtualization and address hardware directly. Scott’s Weblog explains this in further detail. Source: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/intel_vf.html One of the mo...