So uhh, what if I told you you could get a fully functional Juniper MX150 router for $400-600 AUD? 1/10th the eBay price of the MX150! Would you believe me? Turns out, the NFX250 is the same hardware as the MX150 – and if [...]
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So – DNS. That ol’ thing. Without it, the internet would just not function for many – having to remember all those numbers. In this day and age, it’s a bit silly to self-host your DNS zones when some great cloud provider options exist – but, how do we keep it redundant and ensure a […]
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So over the last 3 months on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia, we have been locked down and not allowed to leave the house. What better time than now to dust off the old app idea and bring it to life? This post will most likely end up as a rambling bunch of mess, but […]
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So you have built a shiny new web app and disabled personal teams, it’s time to build and deploy! In this article, we will learn how to set up our Laravel 8 application for builds with GitHub Actions. In a future article (I will link here once written) we will go over deploying this to […]
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I’ve started building a new portal for work, after many iterations we have settled on Laravel 8 and Jetstream. The biggest annoyance so far has been a personal team getting created for every single user. We don’t want these unused entries clogging up the database, as we will consider a team as a company that […]
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[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] I recently broke our AWX installation, which meant provisioning workflows ground to a halt! We were hit by a bug running on Docker [...]
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Back in 2014 at $dayjob, we built a network for the future (or so we thought!). This contained multiple Cisco 6500 chassis with Supervisor Engine 720 & WS-6748-GE line cards — all eBay specials. Port Channels and trunk ports everywhere This design — whilst good for ’99 started to cause issues with spanning tree, engineers […]
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