Setting Up a Cloudflared Tunnel for a Cluster

This draft captures the practical shape of a cluster-side Cloudflare tunnel setup: install cloudflared, register the service, and use DNS-backed certificate workflows where needed.

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.

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.

Rebuilding Worker Nodes in a Rancher-Managed Cluster

This draft captures a real cluster recovery workflow where problem nodes were cleaned up, re-registered into Rancher, and then brought back into a larger rebuild that included storage, MetalLB, and GPU-related follow-up work.

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.

Provisioning a CentOS 7 Instance on Vultr

This is a real-world provisioning log, rewritten into a readable deployment walkthrough for Linux admins and technical hiring managers.

Invalid command ‘Header’ in htaccess

A quick fix for the Apache htaccess error about the invalid ‘Header’ command.

Playing with your hosts file /etc/hosts

A practical introduction to using the hosts file for local development, domain mapping, and basic troubleshooting.

Images don't show up in Magento Product Information Page

A quick fix for missing Magento product images after a media directory transfer caused cache permission problems.