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VPN’s have traditionally been slow, complex and hard to set up and configure. That all changed several years ago when Wireguard was officially merged into the mainline Linux kernel (src). I won’t go over all the reasons for why you should want to use Wireguard in this article, instead I will be focusing on just how easy it is to set up and configure. For this tutorial we will be using Terraform to stand up a Digital Ocean droplet and then install Wireguard onto that. The Digital Ocean droplet will be acting as our “server” in this example and we will be using our own computer as the “client”. Of course, you don’t have to use Terraform, you just need a Linux box to install Wireguard on. You can find the code for this tutorial on my personal Git server [here](https://git.hackanooga.com/Mike Conrad/wireguard-terraform-digitalocean). ...

Job Description We are looking for an experienced professional to help us set up an SFTP server that will allow our vendors to send us inventory files on a daily basis. The server should ensure secure and reliable file transfers, allowing our vendors to easily upload their inventory updates. The successful candidate will possess expertise in SFTP server setup and configuration, as well as knowledge of network security protocols. The required skills for this job include: ...

I was recently working on project where a client had cPanel/WHM with Nginx and Apache. They had a large number of sites managed by Nginx with a large number of includes. I created a custom config to override a location block and needed to be certain that my changes where actually being picked up. Anytime I make changes to an Nginx config, I try to be vigilant about running: nginx -t to test my configuration and ensure I don’t have any syntax errors. I was looking for an easy way to view the actual compiled config and found the -T flag which will test the configuration and dump it to standard out. This is pretty handy if you have a large number of includes in various locations. Here is an example from a fresh Nginx Docker container: ...

I am a big proponent of open source technologies. I have been using Gitea for a couple years now in my homelab. A few years ago I moved most of my code off of Github and onto my self hosted instance. I recently came across a really handy feature that I didn’t know Gitea had and was pleasantly surprised by: Package Registry. You are no doubt familiar with what a package registry is in the broad context. Here are some examples of package registries you probably use on a regular basis: ...

Recently I decided to rebuild one of my homelab servers. Previously I was using Nginx as my reverse proxy but I decided to switch to Traefik since I have been using it professionally for some time now. One of the reasons I like Traefik is that it is stupid simple to set up certificates and when I am using it with Docker I don’t have to worry about a bunch of configuration files. If you aren’t familiar with how Traefik works with Docker, here is a brief example of a docker-compose.yaml ...