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Continue reading →: Ansible – Looking At Basic Security (Raspberry Pi)Ansible is allowing me to control some devices, so what can I do with it to improve security on my Pi network? Note: This post forms part of the my collection of posts on Ansible including installation; SSH set-up and the basics of a playbook/commands. Chage Raspbian has a function…
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Continue reading →: Ansible – Looking at commands & Playbooks (Raspberry Pi)With Ansible installed and connections to other devices set up, it is now time to have some fun and start using Ansible. For this project I am using a Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspbian OS (Buster) with Ansible installed and two Raspberry Pi Zero Ws running Raspbian OS (Buster). The…
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Continue reading →: Ansible Setting Up SSH (Raspberry Pi)In the previous post I walked through installing Ansible on a Raspberry Pi and finished at the point of the Ansible inventory being set up but needing some SSH. For this part of the project I am using: A Raspberry Pi 3 with Ansible installed, running Raspbian OS (Buster). This is…
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Continue reading →: Installing Ansible (Raspberry Pi)My professional day-to-day role sees me administrating Windows OS based systems using Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Active Directory/Group Policy. Knowing what tools are available to manage so many Windows systems at once I’m looking for something similar to manage several Raspberry Pi (Linux) systems at once. Previously…
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Continue reading →: Raspbian OS Buster Upgrade (Raspberry Pi)Raspbian Buster is available and, if like me, you cannot currently afford to upgrade to a Raspberry Pi 4 and you don’t want to install Buster from fresh then it is time to do an in place operating system (OS) upgrade. I am going to doing this in place upgrade…
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Continue reading →: Configuring A Firewall (Raspberry Pi)In the previous post I discussed the basics of setting up the UFW firewall on a Raspberry Pi, now I’ll dig into some of the slightly more advanced features. Numbered Rules Every allow, deny or limit that UFW is told about is remembered as a numbered rule. To view the…
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Continue reading →: Installing A Firewall – Basics (Raspberry Pi)If you are opening your Raspberry Pi to the internet then security should be a concern/part of your project design. So today I’m going to look at configuring a software firewall called UFW. Installing UFW Installing a firewall on the Raspberry Pi (Raspbian) is accomplished easily via the terminal and…
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Continue reading →: AWS AWSomeDay June 2019Today (18th June 2019) I had the fantastic opportunity to attend (virtually) the Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWSomeDay conference. Up to now most of my cloud experience (both personally and professionally) has been via Microsoft Azure, which has allowed me to have fun completing various projects (bots, cognitive vision, temperature…
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Continue reading →: Using a Kindle as an eInk Clock (Java)Earlier on today I used Python (via Flask, some HTML and my Raspberry Pi) to help turn my Amazon Kindle into an eInk digital clock. This was cool and I was happy until I decided I wanted to do the same thing via Java and TomCat. For this project I…
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Continue reading →: Using a Kindle as an eInk Clock (Python)A little bit of a mini weekend project today as I wanted to put my Amazon Kindle to use when I’m not reading, and decided that the Kindle’s “Experimental Browser” could be useful. How about an eInk digital clock… Note: I’m using Python for this project but similar results could be…


