With a basic CRUD Laravel app containing API routes I wanted to protect the API behind Oauth. So I followed the instructions on the Laravel documentation and a great video by Andre Madarang on Youtube. After following the steps of requiring... » More
Simple wee python script for renaming files in a directory. I had a bunch of mp4 files that had a reference code at the end rather than the front so renaming to put the reference code at the front would keep them in order e.g. myfile-m6-03.mp4 to... » More
I wanted to watch a PluralSight course while on a flight without internet access. This might well be against the PluralSight terms and conditions so I don't recommend doing this. I used a recent version of youtube-dl and used a recent version of... » More
Hashicorp Vault supports several backends for secret storage. I was creating a test Vault to play with PKI certificate generation and started with installing Zookeeper After download the Vault binary and extracting it to /usr/local/sbin/vault, I... » More
I didn't find much in the way of examples online for using Terraform against VMWare. So here is the .tf config that worked for me: provider "vsphere" { user = "jonny@dev" password = "CHANGEME!" vsphere_server = "192.168.1.2"... » More
There have been some changes to the NetApp menu and it took me a few minutes to find the location to apply export policies to a volume. It is currently (version 9.1) found under the 'Junction Paths' menu tab for the SVM. The 'Export Policies' are... » More
I'm just recording some notes here on the steps I took to run a Minecraft (Spigot) server on a CentOS 7 server. Install Pre-requisites yum install git python-twisted-core python-psutil python-urwid python-twisted-web screen Get... » More
Courtesy of Pete in work. To enable hostname auto completion in Bash, do the following: dig pop @dns.server.tld axfr | awk '$4 ~ /\yA\y/ && gsub(/.$/,"",$1) {print $1}' > ~/.hosts If you would prefer to filter out hosts e.g. dev and... » More
The default user and password combination for a Dell iDRAC interface is root / calvin It can be manually reset when logging in to the web interface but when doing many machines at once and many actions at the same time the racadm tool is handy. To... » More
Install the prerequisites. Below works for Debian-based distros such as Ubuntu/Mint: apt-get install libzookeeper-mt-dev Install python libraries: pip install zkpython pykeeper Example code below shows making a connection, getting the names of some... » More
With a basic CRUD Laravel app containing API routes I wanted to protect the API behind Oauth. So I followed the instructions on the Laravel documentation and a great video by Andre Madarang on Youtube. After following the steps of requiring... » More
