What is this? This post is kind of my original journey into podman and getting a quick proof-of-concept pod up and running. In the end I changed paths away from quadlets and terminal-pasting in favour of podman-compose (like docker compose) style setup because I like the neatness of the ‘recipe’ of a compose.yaml file. However, I am not done with…
How to Setup an Ubuntu Server as a Podman Container Environment
What is this? This started out as a learning adventure to see whether it’s possible to turn an old laptop into a Nextcloud container using Podman (instead of Docker) on Ubuntu. Spoiler alert: It is! However, this particular post I have decided to remove the Nextcloud part and just focus on the server setup part. More details about Nextcloud in…
GETTING RELIABLE SSL CERTS FOR FREE WITH DUCKDNS
What is this? You’ve discovered the powerful and free tool of DuckDNS (They take donations by the way if you scroll to bottom of page). Now you tried one attempt or another of getting SSL certificates working so you can use it, perhaps, as a home test lab server, but you have endless problems getting the certs working via lets…
MANUALLY CREATING A MULTI-CONTAINER POD NETWORK WITH PODMAN
What is this? This is an off-shoot blog from my journey of trying to set up multiple podman containers on an ubuntu server running on my old laptop. This post is very specific about connecting the pods and the network together, not actually setting up the containers and their services. I’ll try to post links to those if I have…
How to Connect and Sync a Thunderbird Calendar with Nextcloud
This should have been easy, but as all things it ended up hard. First, when I tried a simple import of my Thunderbird .ics calendar into my new Nextcloud install, I got ‘could not parse data’ errors. Wouldn’t end. After much searching it seems like there might be something in the .ics data that doesn’t work with new Nextcloud, or,…
HOW TO HANDLE CHEP PALLETS AND NOT DIE (FINANCIALLY)
Edit: 251222 : Turns out Chep has mandatory appointment pickups! This significantly increases costs, especially small orders to you. See What is this all about? I’ve worked in various warehouses, on various levels and have always seen the back-breakingly heavy and (probably) brand-specific pantone blue colour around the warehouse. I hate moving them, but I like their strength, consistency and…
Facepalm Fix for SSH Permission denied Error on Raspberry Pi
I’m labeling this post for Raspberry Pi (RPI) – because it just happened to happen on an RPI. I suppose it could have been any headless server… It probably happened on an RPI because it’s not a ‘normal’ server and you have to mess around with SD cards and can’t easily copy/paste stuff. Anyways, to make a longer story shorter,…
MOVING A DOMAIN FROM ONE DIGITAL OCEAN ACCOUNT TO ANOTHER
You’d think from the title this would be easy.Think again!The main reason this is harder than I expected is because Digital Ocean will not allow you to add the domain to your Act02 until you have first deleted it completely from Act01. Here is the high level view of what we need to do and then a few details to…
A ROOKIE UBUNTU ADMIN’S JOURNEY THROUGH A WORDPRESS MIGRATION
What is this? This is a post for those who have to move a Word Press installation (Specifically) from one ubuntu server to another, including: 1) DNS records2) files3) mysql database4) Let’s Encrypt bonus item All of these cute little moving cogwheels in the system can muck you up royally and so instead of piece-mealing it together I thought I’d…
HOW TO RESTORE A MYSQL DATABASE TO UBUNTU SERVER
Why this post? As always I post something when I find that something simple isn’t so simple. Here is the case again. I had done lots of MSQL dumps (for backups) but realized I never had to actually manually recreate one. So then I started and as always, mysql is a bit scary and sometimes counter intuitive. So that’s why…