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How to use External TLS Termination with AWS
3 min readThis document covers setting up Rancher using an AWS SSL certificate and an ALB (Application Load Balancer).
How to Fix 'E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)'
1 min readIn Ubuntu, you may sometimes encounter an error when attempting to run an apt command: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily …
Exposing Services in Kubernetes Using External IPs
7 min readExposing services in Kubernetes effectively and securely is a common challenge, especially when working with bare metal deployments. NodePort might be the go-to solution for many, …
Updating the docker bridge for Rancher managed clusters
2 min readThe docker0 bridge network has a default IP range of 172.17.0.0/16 (with an additional docker-sys bridge for system-docker using 172.18.0.0/16 by default on RancherOS). These …
Install PowerShell on Ubuntu
1 min readAs part of my DevOps process, I needed to create some DNS records on my Windows DNS server. In order to script this out, I needed to install PowerShell on my Jenkins server which …
Rancher SSL Passthrough for NGINX ingress
2 min readRecently while setting up Vault inside Rancher. I ran into an issue with the NGINX ingress terminating TLS and forwarding traffic unencrypted to Vault.
Persisting RancherOS state
3 min readRecently I set about installing RancherOS. This was just to have a look and see what use cases it might help with. I chose to install RancherOS to a VM. In my case, VMware …
How to become a local CA, and sign your own SSL certificates
2 min readSometimes when you experiment with some apps and VMs (like hosting gitlab on a local server or running a Rancher lab cluster) you might want to setup SSL for the app to work, to …