Ruan Bekker's Blog

Upload Public SSH Keys using Ansible

Easy Ad-Hoc VPNs with sshuttle

Use a SSH Jump Host with Ansible

In this Ansible tutorial, we will demonstrate a basic Ping Role in a Playbook.

Using the libvirt provisioner with Terraform for KVM

Setup a KVM Host for Virtualization on OneProvider

Using the local-exec provisioner with Terraform

setup a nfs server with docker for persistent storage for your containers

Using if statements in bash to check if environment variables exist

Getting Started on Logging with Loki using Docker

Hugo is a must when you want to start a lightweight blog which is super fast

Using ProxyJump with SSH for VMs with No Public IPs

Using a SSH Reverse Tunnel to Access Nodes on Private Ranges

Get the Top 10 Items on Hackernews in Python

Never use sequential writes when you have lots of records to write at once, rather use batch writes to improve write performance

Increase your blog performance by adding a nginx reverse proxy with caching enabled on Docker

Ingesting Pocket.com Links into Elasticsearch

Python Redis Queue Getting Started Tutorial by Ruan Bekker

Selecting and Returning Specific Data with JQ

Server Backups to Google Drive using the Drive CLI tool

How to setup a Redis Exporter for Prometheus

I will be demonstrating how to build a full analysis dashboard using grafana and elasticsearch.

This tutorial will show you how to do Port Forwarding with Iptables on Linux.

This is a linux tutorial on how to set a Static IP address in Ubuntu 18 Linux.

Graphing Covid-19 Stats with Grafana and Elasticsearch using Python

Nginx Metrics on Prometheus with the Nginx Log Exporter

How to setup a ipsec site to site VPN with Dynamic IPs using Openswan on Linux.

In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to implement persistent volumes with k3d distribution of Kubernetes.

This tutorial will show you how to setup a asynchronous function with OpenFaas

This tutorial demonstrates how to setup a Traefik Ingress for OpenFaas on Kubernetes (k3d)

This tutorial shows you how to install OpenFaas on k3d distribution of Kubernetes locally.

Lightweight Development Kubernetes Options: k3d

Run Localstack as a Service Container for AWS Mock Services on Drone CI

Run Kubernetes (k3s) as a Service Container on Drone CI

Setup Gitea and Drone on Docker 2020 Edition

Thanos is a open source, highly available prometheus setup with long term storage capabilites

This ansible tutorial shows you how to save the stdout to a local file with ansible.

This ansible tutorial shows how to work with environment variables in ansible.

Setup a WireGuard VPN Server on Linux

This tutorial will demonstrate how to manage background processes with screen.

2019: My personal highlights for the year

Setting the Correct Service Name in Datadog Logging for Docker Swarm

In this tutorial we will setup AWS S3 Cross Account Access between Two AWS Accounts

I will demonstrate how to create a VPC Peering Connection between Two AWS Accounts and how to route traffic between them

Now that we have our EKS cluster running, let's deploy a web application to our Kubernetes Cluster

How to deploy a Kubernetes Cluster on Amazon Web Services with their EKS offering

Testing AWS Lambda Functions Locally on Docker with LambCi

This tutorial will demonstrate how to integrate Google OAuth with Traefik.

This tutorial shows how you can run VSCode in your Browser with Docker.

This tutorial shows you how to expire objects in AWS S3 automatically after 30 days.