My VM server is always a load of fun when it comes to things crashing unexpectedly. This time around it turns out it wasn’t due to a firmware incompatibility but rather due to the SSD failing at a hardware level. So it’s time for another episode in the data recovery saga.

So after a great deal of thought I finally decided to add commenting to my tech blog. Here’s how that went…

Now that we’ve figured out how to get Jenkins to talk to FreeIPA directly we can explore other authentication schemes. We are going to start with Keycloak because it provides an OpenID API which we can consume in other applications to avoid some of the complexity of talking LDAP to FreeIPA.

Just a quick update to our Rancher cluster configuration to pass the Kubernetes API through to the backend nodes.

A quick diversion into how to get FreeIPA automounts working in Debian Buster.