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  • Authelia is popular, as is Keycloak. I believe Red Hat develops Keycloak or at least has a hand in it.

    I’m on this journey as well, figuring out what I’m going to use. Currently most of my services just use LDAP back to AD but I’m looking to do something more modern like SAML, oAuth or OpenID Connect so that I can simplify the number of MFA tokens I have.

    Just as an anecdote you may find useful - Personally I used to run an Active Directory for Windows and FreeIPA for my Linux machines and have managed to simplify this to just AD. Linux machines can be joined, you can still use sudo and all the other good stuff while only having one source of truth for identity.







  • Zabbix can do everything you’re asking and can be connected to Grafana if you want custom visualisations. Most importantly, it contextualises what you need to know on the dashboard, as in it only tells you about things that require your attention.

    You’re of course able to dive into the data and look at raw values or graphs if you wish, and can build custom dashboards too.

    I’ve used it in both home lab and production scenarios monitoring small to mid size private clouds, including windows and linux hosts, docker, backups, SAN arrays, switches, VMware vSphere, firewalls, the lot. It’s extremely powerful and not terribly manual to set up.

    If metrics is all you want and aren’t too fussed on the proactive monitoring focus, Netdata is a great option for getting up and running quickly.












  • Whilst I agree and sympathise with people on how difficult it is to change your primary email address (been there), the outcome will be better for them. They are no longer wedded to an ISP purely because all their mail goes there.

    To liken it to something more tangible; when you move house, you need to change your mailing address. For renters, that can be often and is just as painful. Or when your phone number changes and you have to update your contacts. The difference here is who is pulling the trigger; the end user vs the provider.

    Gmail is a great option, as is Proton Mail for the security conscious and tech savvy.

    This isn’t to excuse the ISPs; it’s a shitty move on their part and the people using these mail accounts will likely be older technically challenged folks, but it is a logical one from a technical perspective. They may have also inadvertently taken the only thing away that’s creating stickiness between them and their customer and driven them into the arms of another ISP.


  • ADHD Jesse’s channel is a trove of information for understanding more about the ADHD mind works. Another great one is How to ADHD, incidentally her name is Jess. Her videos have gotten some extremely emotional responses from me because she explains things I’ve never known how to and that no psychologist has been able to pinpoint or explain.

    To unlock that understanding of yourself and have an explanation for how you think, feel and operate after struggling for so long with it is a powerful emotion