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CakePHP 4 – Logging to Syslog

The documentation at https://book.cakephp.org/4/en/core-libraries/logging.html#logging-to-syslog recommends logging to Syslog in production by adding the following snippet to config/bootstrap.php Log::setConfig('default', [ 'engine' => 'Syslog' ]); If you add a prefix...

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blobfuse2 Setup

BlobFuse2 is a Microsoft maintained utility to mount a remote Azure Storage Account Blob Container or folder into the Linux file system and then interact with it as if it was local. You need some directories to serve as a cache and mount point. You could put them...

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UDM – IPS

I was trialing a site-to-site IPSec VPN between an Azure two NIC PFSense intance and my UDM (See image) I found that when I was trying to reach www.postfix.org with browser or ping I couldn't. I thought it was something to do with have a PFSense / UDM s2s VPN I tried...

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Azure pfsense

Things I learn't while installing the pfsense The VHD for import into Azure has to be specially configured. A good blog article with screen shots is https://www.christofvg.be/2019/01/12/pfSense-on-Azure-Part-1-Create-pfSense-Virtual-Machine/ VHD format, Fixed Size...

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Digital Ocean

The good news is Digital Ocean has a Sydney data centre. The bad news is they only support Linux workloads (unless you bring a custom image) They're a great option if you don't want to pay a premium to Azure or AWS

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