Introduction First let me say, I am not a software developer, nor am I hardware developer. If I were, I may not be writing this post. I am merely a hobbyist and I would be absolutely overjoyed if a well-seasoned veteran in either of those areas read this post and had a solution for me. With that out of the way, a disclaimer: this is going to be a very long, rambling, post. I have spent the better part of the last year with my mind subtlety occupied by this subject. I think about it for at least a few minutes every day. This post is going to be a sort of dump of my collective learning on the subject, mostly just as an attempt at getting it out of my brain, and secondarily as a hope that perhaps someone will stumble across it and offer me a solution I […]
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Let’s Encrypt With Nginx
When I saw the first news of the Let’s Encrypt project several months ago I got pretty excited about it, mostly because I don’t like to use self-signed certificates and this blog didn’t seem worthwhile to pay for a proper certificate on. Combined with the recent news of Google starting to shame sites not using SSL I figured I would give it a shot. Here is a quick rundown of how I configured my nginx web server to use Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates. The official documentation for Let’s Encrypt can be found here. A few things to note at the start: I did not use the nginx plugin, as that is very broken I followed a fairly manual process using the “webroot” method thanks to this tutorial My Linux distro is Arch Linux This first thing you need to do is install/configure Let’s Encrypt. You can do this in any […]
Breaking Down an NAA ID / World Wide Name
At least once a week in my career as a storage engineer I have a conversation that involves a systems admin asking me to add space to a SAN (fiber channel attached) based storage object by referring to it how they see it. This could be the name of a data store in VMware, saying the “E-drive”, or any number of other descriptions of a storage object which are meaningless to me. When I ask for more detail I am often given the world wide name of the device, as to them it looks like a pretty unique identifier for the storage they are talking about. Before I long I log into the system myself and get it all sorted out but I wanted to see if there was a way I could make a quick and easy translation of the world wide name they give me so that it […]