Access Encrypted ZFS from Rescue Boot
How to decrypt an Ubuntu 22.04 file system on an encrypted ZFS installation to fix problems, namely if you lost your sudo rights.
Run a Stable LizardFS
After some evaluation, LizardFS is my recommended distributed file system. It provides redundancy for huge amounts of storage and is fast enough to serve as docker storage backend. But still there are a lot of pitfalls that could make you loose your data. Here is a collection of my learnings.
Docker Swarm and GlusterFS
Docker swarm is very easy to setup and maintain. It distributed containers over several nodes in a cloud, offers load balancing, redundancy, failover, smooth updates. But local volumes stay locally, so you need a cluster or network file system. That's where gluster enters the stage.
Setup OpenLDAP Server in Docker
Setup an OpenLDAP server in a docker container, including a LDAP Administration Manager web interface, requires just four commands in a Linux bash. Three more to enable TLS.
Overwrite Console Key Mapping Ctrl+Alt+F1
A description on where and how to change the basic Unix key mappings on Ubuntu. If you want to reconfigure Ctrl-Alt-Del or Ctrl+Alt+F1 or Alt+F1, you find a solution in this article.
Docker Overview
Short summary on Containers, Images and how to use Docker. Introduction for beginners, containerization.
Combine PKCS11 (SuisseID) and SSH
How to use a PKCS#11 hardware token, such as SuisseID for SSH login.