April 2021

April 28, 2021

TrueNAS site-to-Site replication

Join me for a tutorial on how to do off-site replication of your TrueNAS datasets, leveraging ZFS snapshots! This is the right way to do off-site backups, with perfect data integrity, rapid point-in-time recovery

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April 27, 2021

Plex containerized, with NFS mounts!

In this episode, I’ll show you how to properly mount NFS shares directly inside your container config, rather than from the underlying host! This moves the mount dependency of your container stack in to your defined configuration file, and is one less thing your underlying hosts need to do, making your...

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April 27, 2021

Solar powered ESP32 IoT sensor

In this video, we built a solar-powered, 18650 battery-backed ESP32-powered sensor, sitting in a compact 3D printed housing. This is using a temperature, humidity and barometric pressure sensor, known as the BME280, which runs on the i2c bus. Additionally, we’re using a TP4056 charge controller, the updated version with low-voltage protection!

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April 7, 2021

iPhone MagSafe Hack

This project was a lot of fun, and slightly terrifying at the same time. You take a perfectly good iPhone XR with not a scratch on it, and tear it down, void its’ warranty, all to install a ring of magnets so it will work with MagSafe. What could possibly go...

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April 5, 2021

Traefik v2 with Lets Encrypt SSL

In this episode, we’re deploying Traefik proxy with a Let’s Encrypt wildcard SSL certificate. We’re using DNS validation, so Traefik doesn’t need to be externally accessible either! Check out the video, and below is example code as well! Don’t forget to use your DNS provider (my example code is geared towards...

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April 2, 2021

Welcome!

Welcome to OMG The Cloud! My focus is on tutorials for IT professionals, both seasoned and new. I also will veer off to share some personal projects at times too. Enjoy, and let me know if there’s additional content you’d like to see! You can find my YouTube channel here, and...

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