Networking

Documenting Network Upgrade Creating a nice graph of the home lab What is next? Documenting Documenting, always the part most engineers loath. However it is proven to be a life saver. For me the home lab was becoming increasingly more complex, my better half, righteously, was more and more concerned that in case something happens to me or I’m not available for whatever reason, she did not know, where, how and what to do when it is relating to the devices at home. ...

In the private VPS cloud solution I have built and setup for Pro Warehouse there was a small nagging issue that needed to be solved. I wanted to have a routed layer 2 network and be able to use the public load balancers provided by the VPS provider. When we started the platform, we got the non-routed layer 2 network up and running pretty fast. Adding a OpenVPN server made the Site-2-Site more and less working. It works, the only caveat I had was that everybody had the same originating source IP in the layer 2 network. We still had the issue that all of the servers could access the internet directly. And with the number of server rising ( > 40 ) an increasing worry. ...

Last Sunday I finally found and made the time to start reading the book that was recommended to me over a year ago: “The Phoenix Project”. It was a nice quite Sunday at home, doors open to the garden, good music on and started reading in the morning. After a couple of chapters I was unable to put it away. It was such a catching read, ten hours later, book done. It was a very long time ago that I was able to read for that long a period. ...