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Elasticblink: Elasticsearch x Blinkstick

Elasticblink is a basic Python application which monitors the health status of an Elasticsearch (ES) cluster and outputs the health as a color on a Blinkstick USB LED. This application operates with Elasticsearch 7.x clusters, but the code could be forked to...

A Raspberry Pi 4 with Elasticsearch

For the purposes of this post I’m going to be installing ElasticSearch 7.17.3 on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM running Ubuntu Server. Based on Lucene, Elasticsearch has become a common and successful document/search indexing platform. A number of applications...

Tailscale and Software Defined WANs for Home VPNs

Note: I’ve previously written on how to setup your own home VPN using a Linux machine and PiVPN. This new approach does not require setting up port-forwarding and/or the transportation of keys to connecting machines. A new collection of Software Defined...

Setting up your own VPN with PiVPN

Note: I’ve recently written a new method for producing a personal VPN using TailScale. This may be easier and more accessible to most readers. It doesn’t require configuration of a networks port-forwarding or the manual sharing of cyrptographic keys. You can...