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Holiday Project Part 1

During my two weeks off of work I set myself the challenge to move as much of my home network infrastructure to Kubernetes as possible. My wife has often questioned “Why do you need any network Infrastructure, other then a wifi point?”. This article is not going to address that question.

So like all good techies I have spent my week off setting up my home LDAP because I need to ensure my kids (8 and 6) need to learn about enterprise computing.

OpenLDAP is an Open Source User Registry. Samba is a file sharing system that allows you to share files across a network. The aim here is to allow users to log into the samba service with users from the LDAP.

I am writing this because I assume I am not the only idiot in the world. This has caused me to waste days of effort.

When generating your own certificates for use with API connect you need to ensure the x509 extension options are correctly set.

A few months back I wrote an article on how to get a quick dns working for working with API Connect 2018. This is another strategy that you can do at your own risk. www.dot.tk allow you to register a free domain, that is free for 12 months. You can then use their DNS server.

I installed ubuntu cosmic and upgraded so everything was on the latest package in the ubuntu repos.