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Cloudflare and Ngrok Tunnels

How is this any different than ngrok?

I recently came across this Cloudflare blog article on Quick Tunnels. They seem like lightweight ngrok tunnels, but without needing any auth. The article suggested they were great to use with agentic flows, but I have a hard time these are things we get just for free - no account required. We’ll look into Cloudflared Tunnels on the CLI, how we might set them up in Kubernetes then compare these things to what Ngrok has to offer.

OS Apps: Timezone, Swiish and VaultWarden

Time, Cards and Secrets

I have a few apps on my todo list today. The first of which is this timezone app in Linux. I’ll try a few ways to install. The next is Swiish which is an excellent containerized business card app. Lastly, we’ll look at Bitwarden and Vaultwarden as I try to restore my OS secrets engine on the cluster. But let’s start with a simple timezone app… Timezone I found this timezone app some time back and really wanted to get it a try.

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).

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