Fixing a Cloudflared Tunnel by Reauthenticating and Recreating Credentials

This draft captures a common cloudflared repair pattern: upgrade the binary, refresh the login material, and recreate the tunnel credentials rather than guessing at partially broken state.

Fixing Thumbor SSL Renewal on an Aging Certbot Install

This draft captures a practical SSL troubleshooting case where renewals looked broken on an older Thumbor host, with the key details coming from the renewal logs and a manual run.

Installing Longhorn on a Kubernetes Cluster and Passing the Environment Checks

This draft captures the part of a Longhorn installation that usually matters most in practice: make sure the node dependencies are in place, enable iscsid, run the environment check script, fix the obvious blockers, and only then install the chart.

Restarting a Vault Container in a Staging Environment

This draft preserves a practical staging note for restarting a Vault service, checking logs, and bouncing a dependent infrastructure container when secrets-related plumbing gets out of sync.

Preparing Canical Storage Nodes for a Ceph Cluster

This draft keeps the preparation side of a Ceph build intact: identify the right storage nodes, inspect the disk inventory carefully, wipe only the intended devices, and make sure the nodes have the network path they need before the actual Ceph deployment begins.

Compacting a WSL 2 `ext4.vhdx` Disk

This draft captures the practical sequence for terminating a WSL 2 distribution and compacting its backing ext4.vhdx file through diskpart.

Installing an SSH Entry Point for WSL 2 on Windows 10

This draft captures the Windows-side pieces needed to make an SSH service running in WSL 2 reachable through a Windows 10 host.

Forcing IPv4 and Disabling IPv6 on Ubuntu 20.04

This draft captures a simple Ubuntu 20.04 configuration change where I disabled IPv6 through sysctl.conf to force IPv4 behavior for a workload.

Fixing `br_netfilter` Sysctl Errors During Kubernetes Node Prep

This draft captures a Kubernetes preparation issue where sysctl reloads failed because /proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-iptables did not exist until br_netfilter was loaded.

Fixing a DeepOps or OpenShift Ansible Run Blocked by `pkg_resources`

This draft captures a small but blocking issue in a DeepOps-style Ansible run where the remote Python environment was missing the pkg_resources module from setuptools.