Fresh/Brewed

OS Apps: GodAmp and Cloakbin

Bring me my Llama

Today we’ll look at a couple of interesting Open-source apps. Both have commercial offerings. The first is “GodAmp”, a modern dotnet-based audio player meant to look and feel like Winamp. While it may not have all the features (yet) of the original, I would argue it’s close to whipping the llama’s rump. To compare, we’ll also look at QMMP and Audacious (in an effort to get the best Winamp experience in Linux)

OpenBao in k8s

OS Vault for fun and profit

I get caught up sometimes on LinkedIn posts and i was directed to this one by Andreas Prins posted Sept 22 about new rancher charts for OpenBao. That seems really sweet. I love Rancher K3s and so i immediately wanted to dig in. I plan to setup OpenBao in K3s then focus on JWT/OIDC authentication with Authentik as well as CLI usage locally. However, we may be in for a rough start…

Home lab maintenance: certs and more certs

I got some fixin to do

I noticed recently that I was getting billed $2.50 monthly for IONOS for “DNS Pro”. Seems this is a mandatory add-in on domains and I only discovered it when a payment was rejected and I was pinged about it in email. So these cheap domains IONOS provides really aren’t when you figure you’ll get bilked for $2.50/month ($30/year) to just exist - I wasn’t even using their DNS (all external).

OS Apps: JSPaint, Shiori, SnapOtter

fun stuff

You know you secretly liked MS Paint. So did I and now there is a solid fast platform independent Open Source alternative called JSPaint. We’ll look into using it to make some diagrams and see if it can fit our needs. I also wanted to check out, or rather circle back to, Shiori. It’s a bookmark tool but also it can download web pages and save them locally. It has a “create a book” feature I want to explore.

Idp with Authelia

Simple light self hosted and OS

We took a look at Authentik recently that provides a nice centralized authentication and authorization solution that is Open Source and self-hosted. But there are other options out there. One that caught my attention is Authelia. Setup I plan to skip docker and just start with Kubernetes. Since I need to route traffic in, I’ll need a DNS record. I can create that easily in Azure DNS $ az account set --subscription "Pay-As-You-Go" && az network dns record-set a add-record -g idjdnsrg -z tpk.pw -a 76.156.69.232 -n authelia { "ARecords": [ { "ipv4Address": "76.156.69.232" } ], "TTL": 3600, "etag": "d32fd44e-1b18-411c-83a5-722b1862bb18", "fqdn": "authelia.tpk.pw.", "id": "/subscriptions/d955c0ba-13dc-44cf-a29a-8fed74cbb22d/resourceGroups/idjdnsrg/providers/Microsoft.Network/dnszones/tpk.pw/A/authelia", "name": "authelia", "provisioningState": "Succeeded", "resourceGroup": "idjdnsrg", "targetResource": {}, "trafficManagementProfile": {}, "type": "Microsoft.Network/dnszones/A" } I want to now bring in the helm repo