tl;dr A Raspberry Pi with a cellular HAT to act as a private internet access point and portable local network. Taking paternity leave for the month of July to introduce our newborn to extended family introduced a lot of hurdles. With all going on in the world not many could be solved with some DIY… Continue reading WiPi – A RaspberryPi Hotspot To Go
Author: Lucas Hall
Nebula – Getting Started
Disclaimer I had no part in the development or implementation of this tool. This blog post explores the tool from the perspective of the f/oss tool as it appears on Github for a home lab scenario, and what I've learned from getting it up and running in a said scenario. This guide will use Ubuntu,… Continue reading Nebula – Getting Started
Re: Changes
Last year I picked up and left Bellingham to take a CPE role at Slack. I worked out of the Denver office and bit- and now I am back in Bellingham. Slack allowed me to go full time remote (rad) and my wife and I moved back to be close to friends during our next… Continue reading Re: Changes
Ch… ch… changes
I am excited to announce that I have accepted a Client Platform Engineer position at Slack . My family will be relocating to Denver CO at the end of January. We are deeply saddened to leave the Pacific Northwest, Bellingham, and the incredible community here, the #Cascadia Macadmins community, and the Apple Admins of Seattle and the Great… Continue reading Ch… ch… changes
“Touchless” macOS deployment utilizing JAMF Connect and InstallApplications
With multifactor too! This post will take a high level view of using and MDM (SimpleMDM), JAMF Connect and InstallApplications for "touchless" deployment of macOS. This deployment method uses Munki as the primary tool for package management, and has been in place since the "NoMAD Days." Big assumptions. You are familiar with MDM and the… Continue reading “Touchless” macOS deployment utilizing JAMF Connect and InstallApplications
LinuxFest Northwest 2018: Using Osquery Via Fleet For Client/Server Visibility
Aside from a few technical difficulties, it was always a pleasure to present March of this year at LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham. If you are around, or can make it to Bellingham for a weekend this conference is worth your time!
Exploring Osquery, Kolide’s Fleet and Graylog for Endpoint Visibility
Why? Desire for fleet visibility Visibility on both clients and hosts Ability to be alerted if something changes, but not necessarily enforce There's one of me Easy to stand up Easy to maintain Automation As much as I wish I had time to "dev" it- I just need it to work. This stack There's a… Continue reading Exploring Osquery, Kolide’s Fleet and Graylog for Endpoint Visibility
Munki, Gitlab & Git-LFS
NOTE: This is not a HOW TO, more of a rant, the how to that may or may not come later. This is written from the perspective of someone who manages (for the most part) their infrastructure from end to end, vm config, service management, monitoring and patching. When it comes to scale, and complexity… Continue reading Munki, Gitlab & Git-LFS
NEMS – Nagios for your Pi
NEMS or Nagios Enterprise Monitoring Server developed by Robbie Ferguson is a modernized version of NagiosPi. NEMS is a modern pre-configured, customized and ready-to-deploy Nagios Core image designed to run on the Raspberry Pi 3 micro computer. At its core it is a lightweight Debian Stretch deployment optimized for performance, reliability and ease of use. I had used FAN (Fully… Continue reading NEMS – Nagios for your Pi
LinuxFest Northwest
I am super excited to announce be presenting at LinuxFest Northwest May 6th on "Managing macOS, without macOS(almost)" you can read more about the session here. LinuxFest Northwest is an annual OpenSource event held at Bellingham Technical College. What is LinuxFest Northwest? LFNW features presentations and Exhibits on various F/OSS topics, as well as Linux distributions and… Continue reading LinuxFest Northwest
