Blogs

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Jun
14
2024

Veeam Backup for Proxmox: Enhancing Data Protection for Your Virtual Environments

Introduction In today’s digital landscape, data protection is paramount. Whether you’re managing a small business or a large enterprise, ensuring the safety and availability of your data is crucial.

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team
Apr
30
2024

Exploring Alternatives to VMware: How Crafty Penguins Can Guide Your Migration to Proxmox

In the wake of significant developments in the virtualization market, many companies are reconsidering their reliance on VMware, especially following its price adjustments after Broadcom’s acquisition and the discontinuation of the free edition of VMware vSphere Hypervisor.

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team
Apr
2
2024

Navigating the Let's Encrypt Transition: An MSP's Perspective

As the digital landscape evolves, so too must the infrastructure that supports it. This sentiment holds especially true for Let’s Encrypt, the widely trusted provider of SSL certificates.

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team
Mar
25
2024

Mastering SSH Agent Forwarding with GitHub: A Guide to Simplified and Secure Key Management

In the vast and intricate web of modern software development, secure and efficient access to code repositories is a cornerstone of workflow optimization.

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team
Feb
1
2024

Navigating the Transition from CentOS 7

Hey everyone, As we’re gearing up for the end of life for CentOS 7 in June 2024, it’s high time we talk about what’s next.

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team
Sep
21
2023

Numbering VBA Lines: A Comedy of Errors

Greetings, code wranglers of the universe! Have you ever been elbow-deep in a VBA macro, only to be slapped by a compile error that makes as much sense as a pineapple pizza debate?

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team
Jul
27
2023

The Comic Catastrophes of Changing an Outlook Calendar Event!

Hey there, fellow time-travelers! Today, I’m going to take you on a hilariously wild journey through the mystical realm of Outlook calendars.

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team
Jul
24
2023

Adventures with Inuit OpenID

Embracing Challenges and Assessing Security Risks in Intuit’s OAuth2 and OpenID Implementation Here at Crafty Penguins, sometimes it’s good to go against the flow.

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team
Oct
6
2022

Why we love Prometheus and Grafana

Want to know the CPU use of a container in a Kubernetes node three months from now? Want custom alerts based on thresholds or failures?

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team
Oct
6
2022

CI/CD Using Google’s Kubernetes (K8S) Engine

Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD for short) has tons of potential! WatchKelsey Hightower deliver an awesome presentation on Kubernetes via several demos during his keynote talk on the KubeCon 2017:

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team
Oct
6
2022

April 25th is World Penguin Day

Today is World Penguin Day! As our Crafty Penguins company name is obviously derived from Penguins, and particular Tux who is theLinux Mascot, we are giving these lovely birds some homage today.

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team
Oct
6
2022

Making the most of Grafana open source dashboards

I came across this recent blog post on OpenSource.com about the Top 10 Grafana Features. We too love Grafana of course (blog post).

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