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Tuesday, 29 April 2025

  • DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 2

    DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 2

    Posted on April 28, 2025 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    I have good news and great news: The good news is that all my corn is in the ground! The great news is that my DIY fertilizer monitor preformed amazingly. If you havent read part 1 check it out here, but the TLDR recap is: consistency is the name of the game. I need to…
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  • DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 1

    DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 1

    Posted on March 16, 2025 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
    Agriculture has been part of my life forever. I grew up on a farm and worked for my grandpa and dad until I was old enough to go off to university. Computers were a huge interest as well and sometimes those two priorities conflicted when I was growing up. I cannot even count the times…
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  • Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto

    Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto

    Posted on October 9, 2024 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    Maintaining secure integrations between Active Directory (AD) and identity management platforms like Keycloak is a crucial task in any modern IT environment. Password management for service accounts, especially those used in sensitive environments such as LDAP integrations, can become tedious when performed manually. However, automating the process reduces errors, enhances security, and saves time. In…
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  • A Water Heater Breakdown Was the Best Thing for My Utility Bills!

    A Water Heater Breakdown Was the Best Thing for My Utility Bills!

    Posted on September 12, 2024 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    The back story… Recently I replaced an electric water heater with a manufactured date from 1992. You might be asking yourself how the hell a water heater survived that long to begin with. Long story short, my wife and I purchased a farm which belonged to my great-grandparents in 2021. They had passed about 15…
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  • DIY Stratum 1 NTP Server: Secure Time Sync with Raspberry Pi Under $200

    DIY Stratum 1 NTP Server: Secure Time Sync with Raspberry Pi Under $200

    Posted on August 30, 2024 by Justin Paul | 9 Comments
    In today’s digital world, precise timekeeping is more important than ever. From securing financial transactions to managing networks, accurate time synchronization ensures that all devices are on the same page. This is where the Network Time Protocol (NTP) comes into play. NTP is a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network,…
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  • Harnessing Zerto 10 API Enhancements for Superior Disaster Recovery

    Harnessing Zerto 10 API Enhancements for Superior Disaster Recovery

    Posted on August 12, 2024 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    Zerto 10 marks the third iteration of a Linux based ZVM, and v10 is already in its 5th major update. While 9.5 and 9.7 were aimed at greenfield environments, Zerto 10 is the path forward for all customers and with the introduction of update 5, has introduced many new APIs. Summary of Core APIs When…
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  • Converting REST API Scripts for ZVM Appliance v2

    Converting REST API Scripts for ZVM Appliance v2

    Posted on August 7, 2024 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments
    A little over a year ago I posted about converting your scripts from Zerto’s ZVM 9.x API to the new ZVM 10.x API. The process I described here still works, but there is an easier way if you are willing to use a username and password, instead of a key and secret. For most purposes,…
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  • How to Install Docker on a Raspberry Pi 5

    How to Install Docker on a Raspberry Pi 5

    Posted on July 27, 2024 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments
    In this How to install and use Docker on Raspberry Pi 5 guide I will walk you through the process I use to get a fresh Raspberry Pi OS image ready for docker workloads. These are my notes and should be considered a living document that may get updated as needed throughout the lifecycle of…
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  • How To Install and Use Docker on Ubuntu 24.04

    How To Install and Use Docker on Ubuntu 24.04

    Posted on July 16, 2024 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    In this How to install and use docker on Ubuntu 24.04 guide I will walk you through the process I use to get a fresh Ubuntu machine ready for docker workloads. These are my notes, and should be considered a living document that may get updated as needed throughout the lifecycle of Ubuntu 24.04. Prerequisites…
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  • How to visualize Zerto metrics using Grafana

    How to visualize Zerto metrics using Grafana

    Posted on April 18, 2023 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    Monitoring Zerto with Open source tools like Grafana and Prometheus
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How to Create and Populate a vSphere Content Library with PowerCLI

How to Create and Populate a vSphere Content Library with PowerCLI

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
“Automate the boring stuff”- it’s the title of the most recommended Python book for new programmers, but it’s also how I feel about all things that I have to do more than a couple times. My general rule is if…
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Harbor: How to Deploy a Private Container Registry

Harbor: How to Deploy a Private Container Registry

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments
What a container registry does Even a single docker host machine has to get its images from somewhere. That somewhere is a container registry. A container registry is typically a public server that allows multiple people to share these images.…
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How to use a Cloudflare API Token for LetsEncrypt Validation on Ubuntu 20.04

How to use a Cloudflare API Token for LetsEncrypt Validation on Ubuntu 20.04

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments
How to use LetsEncrypt with CloudFlare API Tokens on Ubuntu 20.04
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How to: Azure Custom DNS, Private Endpoints, and Zerto

How to: Azure Custom DNS, Private Endpoints, and Zerto

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
Disclaimer PRIVATE ENDPOINTS REQUIRE GPV2 STORAGE ACCOUNTS. ZERTO IS A HIGH IO REPLICATION ENGINE AND GPV2 STORAGE ACCOUNTS HAVE AN EXPONENTIALLY HIGHER IO COST. (GPV1 = $.0004 per 10,000 READ OR WRITE IO, GPV2 = $.004 per 10,000 READ IO…
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The Ultimate Nerd Raspberry Pi Cluster case version 2.0!

The Ultimate Nerd Raspberry Pi Cluster case version 2.0!

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
How do you make the Ultimate Nerd Raspberry Pi cluster case better!?! I wrote this article sometime in late 2019 or early 2020… apparently I forgot to click publish. Woops! So basically this post is about how I made my…
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What Happens When You Turn 240 Containers Against A SQL Server To Test VSS Stun Time

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
This is the story of how I created a load generator using containers to performance test MS SQL and the effects on VSS stun time. I’ve heard from customers more times than I can count that VSS is SUPER disruptive…
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How to Build a JunkYard Kubernetes Cluster on the Cheap!

How to Build a JunkYard Kubernetes Cluster on the Cheap!

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
This post is about recycling old hardware that you might never consider using for a lab. It won’t be a super technical post, but since Kubernetes requirements are not the same as virtualization hosts you might be surprised at the…
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How to Enable Zerto LTR with no hardware using HPE Cloud Volumes Backup

How to Enable Zerto LTR with no hardware using HPE Cloud Volumes Backup

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
Zerto Long Term Retention Zerto is known for its super low RPO and RTO objectives and its ability to “re-wind” your VM like a DVR would do to a movie. Those features require production class storage, and sometimes lots of…
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How to Install VMware Drivers on a non-VMware Machine

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
This method of installing VMware Drivers is for those who don’t like the idea of cracking the VMware Tools installer and removing the parts that check for VMware based VMs. I guess you could say that this way is more…
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Warning! Don’t try to learn Kubernetes

Warning! Don’t try to learn Kubernetes

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments
Was that a click bait headline or what! LOL, seriously though, if you have been thinking about learning about containers DON’T start with Kubernetes! There is a lot of buzz around Kubernetes, containers, and Docker, and for good reason. However,…
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