Using HAPROXY as an SSL gateway

Haproxy is a pretty nifty product. Probably not the least due to the fact that it’s author, Willy Tarreau spends hours of his life helping others in setting it up the way they want, sometimes fixing a bug in the process. The latest release marks the end to a 4-year long bugfix that finally went…

Redmine project issue view bug

I recently had to migrate a redmine installation which gave me the opportunity to come in contact again with ruby, Plenty of my friends and co-devops seem to really love ruby. Now here was my chance to make this a slick one. At the same time I had to do some thinking concerning how to…

Prosper Hiel – bedankt

Sensei, Voor alles wat ik van jou heb mogen leren, en zelfs nog steeds elke dag bijleer. Je was in staat dingen simpel voor te stellen maar ze bleven eens zo goed hangen. Zoals een echte budo-meester laat je eeuwig je stempel na op je kroost. Het was een eer voor mij. Domo arigato gozaimasu….

Linode tproxy support missing

In case you are getting this sort of error when setting up your box with iptable rules to support tproxy: root@cartman:~# iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m socket -j DIVERT iptables: No chain/target/match by that name. That error is refering to the ‘-m socket’ match. It seems that on certain kernels (linode kernels…

Github and Bitbucket

If you found your way here Googling Github vs. Bitbucket instead of Bitbucket vs. Github, I forgive you. It was my natural instinct to type it up like that as well. Maybe I had some SEO tactics in my mind as well when I came up with this title. Anyway, if you came here to…