Inspired by Cloudflare CTO - John Graham-Cumming cool post decided switch my OpenVpn server to provide secure access my Home Assistant , Raspberry Pi based installation in a serverless way. Finally I found some spare time, so let’s dig around of it!

Quite often I am using Check-MK system monitoring (in place of Nagios), mostly because it has quite nice defined custom plugin interface, but not quite good documented in more advanced aspects. In this blog post I will focus on how to wrote your own Special Agent plugin type, so let’s dig around of it!

VMware vCloud Director (since 10.1 version Cloud Director) delivers whole stack to set up and deliver infrastructure as a service to end user. It has a bunch of some cool features, especially in network aspects delivered by NSX, as well as support for buzz word of the last time - Kubernetes, but there is one missing functionality when it comes about more secure access to tenant portal. Well, maybe not missing, but not provided out of the box - I mean 2FA. I will show you how to set up this with SAML Identity Provider, in this case - Keycloak and Google Authenticator . Let’s dig around of it!