There are several good articles on setting up SAR for debian (sar on ubuntu/debian) and redhat systems but I could find few on Alpine (perhaps because it is simple). In any event, here's my process for setting up sar to run periodically via cron to track server stats. Install Install with: apk add sysstat Setup Not a …

spw is a python application that stores and retrieves passwords in a secure maner. spw is designed to be quick, light on resources/dependencies, and command line/script driven. Passwords are stored in an encrypted format using PKCS1_OAEP encryption. This means you use a public and private key to encrypt and decrypt …

mail (from mailutils) is a common sysadmin tool for sending system mail, however, it brings in unneeded/undesired packages (e.g. mysql/mariadb tools). sendmail is much lighter and can usually get the job done. Typical mail Scenario The following cron entry runs deborphan every Monday at 14:33, emailing the results to …

We often need to monitor a system during load testing to determine how heavily the system is being taxed (i.e. determining the proper AWS instance type) and to determine what is being hit (memory, cpu, etc.). Often the target system has monitoring features (e.g. Prometheus or other); however, there are times when we do …

About SweetHome3D is a free interior design application. You can install it from most repos; however, the install often requires a lot of unneeded libraries and/or didn't work well for my situation. There are several articles that suggest you can/should run it directly but none gave the steps needed so I thought I …

2022-05-27 Update This article references boi which was rebranded to be ibuilder in May of 2022. This tutorial will show how to take an existing application (the dradux.com website itself) and deploy it to a kubernetes cluster using boi, a lightweight tool for building and pushing docker images. Deploying an …

HAProxy All of the following in one .pem file: The Certificate for your domain The intermediates in ascending order to the Root CA A Root CA, if any (usually none) Private Key Nginx Two separate files: The Certificate for your domain, the intermediates, and root CA are in one file The private key

Requirements must be light on cpu and ram small overall footprint perform basic audio playing features (playlist management a plus) Findings App Type Size CPU RAM Notes cmus ncurses 192,506 3.7% 8.096 really like it, mutt of audio players deadbeef GUI 2,321,554 5.0% 22,496 basic ui; it loads/plays my playlist! vlc GUI …