Geek is the Way! https://geekistheway.com/ Trying to learn just a bit! Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:30:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/geekistheway.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-Screen-Shot-2022-06-05-at-18.01.59.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Geek is the Way! https://geekistheway.com/ 32 32 149526228 Private PyPI with Docker Compose on RHEL 8.10 https://geekistheway.com/2026/04/16/private-pypi-with-docker-compose-on-rhel-8-10/ https://geekistheway.com/2026/04/16/private-pypi-with-docker-compose-on-rhel-8-10/#respond Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:49:25 +0000 https://geekistheway2252.live-website.com/?p=2821 Last Updated on April 23, 2026 by Thiago Crepaldi For developers managing internal libraries or AI infrastructure, a private PyPI server is essential for hosting nightly builds without polluting public registries. devpi is the gold standard for this, specifically for its “volatile” index feature which allows for rapid iteration. In this guide, we’ll deploy it...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2026/04/16/private-pypi-with-docker-compose-on-rhel-8-10/feed/ 0 2821 Troubleshooting “Failed” pfSense+ Upgrades on Netgate Hardware https://geekistheway.com/2026/04/04/troubleshooting-failed-pfsense-upgrades-on-netgate-hardware/ https://geekistheway.com/2026/04/04/troubleshooting-failed-pfsense-upgrades-on-netgate-hardware/#respond Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:25:10 +0000 https://geekistheway2252.live-website.com/?p=2811 Last Updated on April 4, 2026 by Thiago Crepaldi The Disk Space Wall Updating your firewall is usually a “set it and forget it” task, but if you’re running a high-performance appliance like the Netgate 6100, you might occasionally hit a wall. In my case, I triggered the update from 25.x to 26.03, the logs...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2026/04/04/troubleshooting-failed-pfsense-upgrades-on-netgate-hardware/feed/ 0 2811 How to Natively Run Prometheus Plex Exporter on Proxmox LXC and Import on Grafana https://geekistheway.com/2025/12/28/how-to-natively-run-prometheus-plex-exporter-on-proxmox-lxc-and-import-on-grafana/ https://geekistheway.com/2025/12/28/how-to-natively-run-prometheus-plex-exporter-on-proxmox-lxc-and-import-on-grafana/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:02:19 +0000 https://geekistheway2252.live-website.com/?p=2786 Last Updated on December 28, 2025 by Thiago Crepaldi If you are running a homelab like mine, you probably rely heavily on Proxmox to manage your infrastructure. I recently deployed a monitoring stack using Prometheus and Grafana within a lightweight LXC container, which I will post more about later. Everything was working perfectly until I...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2025/12/28/how-to-natively-run-prometheus-plex-exporter-on-proxmox-lxc-and-import-on-grafana/feed/ 0 2786 Setting up No-IP DDNS on your Unifi Dream Router https://geekistheway.com/2023/07/09/setting-up-no-ip-ddns-on-your-unifi-dream-router/ https://geekistheway.com/2023/07/09/setting-up-no-ip-ddns-on-your-unifi-dream-router/#respond Mon, 10 Jul 2023 02:04:35 +0000 https://geekistheway2252.live-website.com/?p=2161 Last Updated on December 30, 2024 by Thiago Crepaldi No-IP is a simple and free Dynamic DNS (aka DDNS) service that is supported as a custom configuration on your Unifi Dream Router (aka UDR), but still very stable and easy to get it running with the right steps. Although I have mentioned this tutorial is...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2023/07/09/setting-up-no-ip-ddns-on-your-unifi-dream-router/feed/ 0 2161 Setting up DuckDNS DDNS on your Unifi Dream Router https://geekistheway.com/2023/07/09/setting-up-duckdns-ddns-on-your-unifi-dream-router/ https://geekistheway.com/2023/07/09/setting-up-duckdns-ddns-on-your-unifi-dream-router/#comments Mon, 10 Jul 2023 01:24:00 +0000 https://geekistheway2252.live-website.com/?p=2158 Last Updated on July 9, 2023 by Thiago Crepaldi DuckDNS is a simple and free Dynamic DNS (aka DDNS) service that is supported as a custom configuration on your Unifi Dream Router (aka UDR), but still very stable and easy to get it running with the right steps. Although I have mentioned this tutorial is...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2023/07/09/setting-up-duckdns-ddns-on-your-unifi-dream-router/feed/ 1 2158 Overriding external domains DNS Bind9’s Response Policy Zone on your pfSense https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/overriding-external-domains-dns-bind9s-response-policy-zone-on-your-pfsense/ https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/overriding-external-domains-dns-bind9s-response-policy-zone-on-your-pfsense/#comments Sat, 18 Mar 2023 05:15:52 +0000 https://geekistheway2252.live-website.com/?p=2148 Last Updated on December 30, 2024 by Thiago Crepaldi On a previous post, we’ve discussed how to use Bind9 on your pfSense in a way that external names were forwarded to name servers while internal names were statically resolved by Bind. In this post, we are going to discuss how to override the IPs returned...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/overriding-external-domains-dns-bind9s-response-policy-zone-on-your-pfsense/feed/ 1 2148 Configuring DHCP Dynamic Host registration on DNS Bind9 on your pfSense https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/configuring-dhcp-dynamic-host-registration-on-dns-bind9-on-your-pfsense/ https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/configuring-dhcp-dynamic-host-registration-on-dns-bind9-on-your-pfsense/#comments Sat, 18 Mar 2023 04:51:28 +0000 https://geekistheway2252.live-website.com/?p=2145 Last Updated on March 18, 2023 by Thiago Crepaldi On a previous post, we’ve discussed how to use Bind9 on your pfSense in a way that external names were forwarded to other name servers and internal names were statically resolved. In this post, we are going to integrate pfSense’s DHCP Server and Bind9, so that...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/configuring-dhcp-dynamic-host-registration-on-dns-bind9-on-your-pfsense/feed/ 1 2145 Configuring DNS Bind9 on your pfSense https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/configuring-dns-bind9-on-your-pfsense/ https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/configuring-dns-bind9-on-your-pfsense/#comments Sat, 18 Mar 2023 04:11:48 +0000 https://geekistheway2252.live-website.com/?p=2140 Last Updated on March 18, 2023 by Thiago Crepaldi If there is one annoying thing on pfSense that seems to be never fixed is its DNS Resolver service called Unbound. Release after release, the Netgate folks still struggle to identify and fix the random crashes, unexpected restarts and whatnot. In this post, we are going...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/configuring-dns-bind9-on-your-pfsense/feed/ 3 2140 Monitoring Speedtest on LAN using iPerf3 on Zabbix Agent https://geekistheway.com/2023/01/03/monitoring-speedtest-on-lan-using-iperf3-on-zabbix-agent/ https://geekistheway.com/2023/01/03/monitoring-speedtest-on-lan-using-iperf3-on-zabbix-agent/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2023 19:26:15 +0000 https://geekistheway2252.live-website.com/?p=2135 Last Updated on December 30, 2024 by Thiago Crepaldi From previous posts, we have deployed Zabbix Server on a Proxmox container. We also hardened the installation through Let’s Encrypt certificates for the web frontend and TLS encryption for the communication between Server and Agents/Proxies, after all, although encrypted Zabbix Server <-> Agent/Proxy communication with PSK...

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