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Monday, 28 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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StorageOS Releases Latest Version of Cloud Native Storage Solution

StorageOS Releases Latest Version of Cloud Native Storage Solution

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
New features include StorageOS Data Locality for improved performance and StorageOS Shared File for increased adoption of containerization
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New Innovation from Snyk Puts Container Security in the Hands of Developers

New Innovation from Snyk Puts Container Security in the Hands of Developers

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
Snyk Container brings a developer-first approach to finding and fixing container and Kubernetes workload vulnerabilities throughout the SDLC
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Everything you need to know about Zerto’s VAIO Announcement

Everything you need to know about Zerto’s VAIO Announcement

Posted on September 3, 2019 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
Zerto previews it VAIO filter at VMWorld 2019 Zerto’s Rob Strechay and VMware’s Paul Turner presented to a packed crowd, including many current Zerto customers, all eager to learn about the new IO filtering option. Aside from the presentation, Zerto…
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Geek stuff worth grabbing on #PrimeDay

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
Or grab them any other day… I didn’t wait till PrimeDay. It’s been a while since I blogged about my addiction to geek toys from Amazon, so here is an update on some of the cool stuff I’ve picked up…
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The Ultimate Nerd #RaspberryPi Cluster Case

The Ultimate Nerd #RaspberryPi Cluster Case

Posted on July 5, 2019 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments
Warning: This may persuade you to buy a 3D Printer… just saying you’ve been warned LOL. Let me start by saying all of the STL files to make this bad boy are on Thingiverse. parts that are not 3D printed…
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87 Ways the new Unofficial Zerto PowerShell Module will help you!

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments
There are lots of ways to interact with Zerto these days, but one of the easiest ways was just released! Wes Carrol has been working on a pretty awesome project that was recently migrated to the new, centralized, Zerto GitHub…
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Hands on IoT at #MSBuild with the Azure MXChip DevKit

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
Last week was a week of firsts for me. It was the trip I had TSA PreCheck; it was the first time I have been to Seattle and it didn’t rain!; and it was the first time I have played…
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Runecast Analyzer – take my money already!

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
Have you ever upgraded firmware, or installed a driver, only later to find out that it’s not compatible with vSphere or ESXi? Maybe I’m just the only one who doesn’t check the HCL or release notes before doing stuff like…
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Azure Automation – How to quickly work with many subscriptions

Azure Automation – How to quickly work with many subscriptions

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments
Lately, I have been writing various scripts to automate Azure tasks for our Zerto Training team. One of the unique things about deploying training labs at scale is that we use MANY Azure subscriptions in order to properly isolate and…
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Azure Scale Sets – A HUGE boost for Zerto 7 RTO time

Azure Scale Sets – A HUGE boost for Zerto 7 RTO time

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
Zerto 7 was officially released April 16th, 2019 and most of the headlines were around the new integrated backup technologies. However, there is another story that hasn’t made as many headlines, but is equally awesome! Zerto has been able to…
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