As mentioned earlier I was going to replace thiss-mdq with pyFF for my SAML federation metadata query service. Comparison thiss-mdq / pyFF On its project site thiss-mdq describes itself as The thiss-mdq is a minimal implementation of MDQ that only supports JSON data. while pyFF considers itself “a SAML metadata aggregator written in python”. Both […]
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Docker hub recently announced an upcoming request limit to their registry. So in order to reduce the amount of requests issued there, the idea of a caching proxy solution comes to mind. Possible solutions Fortunately there are some projects already working on that problem. However there are different approaches. Some of the projects I found […]
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Unattended Ubuntu ISO
I recently built an unattended installation ISO to ease installation of Windows 11 test machines. So why not do the same for Ubuntu? While looking around I found solutions for Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04. The 22.04 version basically works fine for Ubuntu 24.04. Nothing the less some modifications were required: the key server URL was […]
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Unattended Windows ISO
For one or another reason even Linux enthusiasts need a Windows installation from time to time. But with every new version Microsoft adds more and bloatware or privacy violating settings that you need to decline during installation in order to get a halfway usable system. The same is true for forced requirements of TPM or […]
Recently I got access to an Openstack system and did my first steps on it. Maybe some of the things I learned so far are of interest to others. Using cloudinit for customization Cloud providers offer the possibility to alter the configuration of their VM images in a standardized way: cloudinit. This uses a simple […]
For some tests with a large language model (LLM) I needed a test system with docker and a Nvidia card (for faster AI processing). Here’s what it takes to convert a basic Ubuntu 24.04.1 installation into a docker based LLM test machine: First let’s have a look at our hardware: Next: Install basic Nvidia drivers: […]