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Kubernetes, Ubuntu clouds on the Raspberry Pi

Hits: 116ZDNet: Ubuntu clouds on the Raspberry Pi. https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-clouds-on-the-raspberry-pi/ Kubernetes Edge computing with dozens of raspberry pi s ! Who cares 😂 ? But truthfully this sounds incredible. Configure it. Package it. Then make it install itself.

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How to fix your Windows 10 Start Menu – Critical Error

Hits: 260I few days ago I started getting “critical error your start menu isn’t working.” reboot now… I saw lots of advice about safe reboot, which only works if the start menu is working. In the end just logged in regular, I ran Powershell as Administrator, then ran the following command. I went to wash up. …

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Let’s Encrypt with Fortigate – How do you push the cert with API?

Hits: 115l found this article by @ultimattt  https://twitter.com/ultimattt?lang=en Let’s Encrypt with Fortigate  really good, But I am left with the big question, since he left out that part of the script. How do I post the new letsencrypt certificate to the fortigate API ? You probably already know that I know how to renew letsencrypt …

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Can’t install Ubuntu 18.10 on XPS 15 – EFI\BOOT\mmx64.efi not found – Ask Ubuntu

Hits: 75copy the file grubx64.efi under the name mmx64.efi (so the USB Drive folder /EFI/BOOT now contains three files: In the end I abandoned Ubuntu Server and went back to Centos.  I booted with the usb that I made with rufus in windows and selected the large USB stick as the device  volume to install onto. Source: Can’t install Ubuntu 18.10 …

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Bash Script that installs curl gets stuck asking to restart services

Hits: 1075You need to put the following sudo UCF_FORCE_CONFOLD=1 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::=”–force-confdef” -o Dpkg::Options::=”–force-confold” -qq -y install curl Even if you add -y to your apt command t still asks you whether it should restart services ┌───────────────────────────────┤ Configuring libssl1.1:amd64 ├────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ There are services installed on your system which need to be restarted …

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Fixing Authorization Failure in Ubuntu VM AWS CLI by Synchronizing the Clock

Hits: 1282AWS EC2 CLI “AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials” I am just trying to run my aws cli from a VM that I keep on a disk-on-key. I added the credentials several times, even creating new accounts. After a few hours of growing perturbance add desire for violence. Running simple …

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Let’s Encrypt Wildcard Certificate Configuration with AWS Route 53

Hits: 1209I am happy to back working as a Devops using AWS. In my new job at https://www.dragontail.com/ I need to automatically produce wildcard certificates from certbot. The instructions at the link seem really good. Wish me luck! Unfortunately there was little clear documentation for configuring all this unless you were an expert magician trained …

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How to Set Up Free SSL Certificates from Let’s Encrypt using Docker and Nginx

Hits: 1205I am not sure why, but I have had some mental blocks with certificates and letsencrypt. The link below explains it really well how to do containerized nginx with letsencrypt free certificates. Beware! it requires running with sudo. The rest of the app I am “DevOping” runs fine as user ubuntu with docker-compose, if …

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