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Testing adding another blog entry after the update!

Updated the blog section with Claude Code, testing out new functionality for this section. The new design includes category filtering, search functionality, and interactive elements like comments and likes.

Huzzah new job acquired! Thanks accesso for picking me up for some datacenter and storage administration. Happy to have a new position, seems mostly linux focused which should be amusing.

Ubuntu 25.04 released so might upgrade my laptop and tablet to play with latest versions, need to update the gaming pc eventually as well but probably another LTS version. Maybe daily drive something else for awhile.

Well time for a new IT position, hopefully someone will hire me! Planning to devote the next month to getting the basic comptia certs, Linux+ will be my first, then Security+ and maybe something else.

Would be a good idea to get the azure and aws fundamentals, not sure if GCP as well. Can't believe one of the GMKtec nodes with 13th gen i5 already failed in the proxmox cluster. Hope the 12th gen will last longer.

Tested the proxmox backups and recovered all 5 lost VM's to the cluster, waiting on replacement node to arrive. Wonder if it be covered by warranty.

Added Zabbix to the environment now and scripted out the installation via ansible playbook. 15 Hosts ingested and counting. Backblaze sync script working like a charm, email alerts and other functionality working now as well.

Added forum to the website succesfully, worked easier as a subdomain for routing vs /forum as a folder.

Success! Turns out I was missing the cloudflared conf modifications, if I was using direct exposed http/https instead of my tunnel workaround for home internet I'd have prolly caught it faster. Differences between business grade and home internet.

There's a link at the top for employment countdown with a working comments section, will add to rest of website.

Working on adding comments section to the website, slightly more complicated than I originally though. Ubuntu node.js backend via the revproxy and API calls.

Ansible added to homelab, playbook to deploy from iso, patch redhat, and patch ubuntu hosts are working, just need to finalize the automatic addition to host file.

Long time no update, went ahead and configured backblaze b2 with rclone to protect the single nvme datastore i'm using with proxmox backup server. Got a nice sync script and recovery script that pulls it back down, tested on the old 4th gen host.

Ooops turns out adding another DNS server that points in a circle breaks things? who knew. Linux.Peeps-lab is now only using itself and external DNS for lookups, with a conditional forward to ad.peeps-lab.com for lookups there? think that is finally correct. Still using script to update the "shared" reverse lookup zone. Oh well work on fixes in the future.

Took a few attempts at wrong /etc/hosts file modifications, but we have the script working to join new servers, add them to idm-all-hosts, and apply my sudo rules for [email protected]. Was getting weird reverse lookup results, finally got replica1.linux.peeps-lab.com installed and responding for a backup IDM host.

Success for a change! Had to switch back to redhat documentation, but automount with roaming home directories are functional. Will work on getting additional shared mount location for all users added but this will do for now.