March 10, 2020

LDAPS in Jenkins on Kubernetes

This is an update to a previous post where I set up Jenkins on Rancher but had difficulty getting SSL certificates loaded correctly to make LDAPS work. After a little more research I think I’ve figured out how to make it happen and have a route forward on the remaining issues it creates.

February 26, 2020

Getting A Butler On The Ranch

Today we’re going to look into what it takes to get Jenkins running on Rancher with Helm. As an added bonus we’re going to have our instance authenticate users against a FreeIPA realm.

February 20, 2020

Debugging HBAC and Sudo Rules in FreeIPA

FreeIPA’s rule based authorization scheme is as interesting as it is complicated. Today we explore removing the “allow_all” rule and fix sudo access in host groups.

February 17, 2020

High-Availability Rancher for the Home Lab

After playing with Rancher some on a small VM I decided I wanted to up my game and try a larger cluster. Having recently picked up a chunky new server I finally have the space to do just that!

February 16, 2020

Struggles With Adding an oVirt Host

I’ve recently added a new heavy-duty server to my home lab and wanted to expand my oVirt cluster to include it. As it turns out, that is nowhere near as easy as it sounds and comes with more than few annoying little gotchas.