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Quaint HP Servers in 2023

Acquired a few old HP servers for home lab.. this is to document their journey.

Challenge:

• Started without using a monitor and a keyboard.

• No access to any KVM over IP, or similar tools

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REGISTRY=https://index.docker.io/v2
REPO=library
IMAGE=debian
TAG=latest

TOKEN=$(curl -sSL "https://auth.docker.io/token?service=registry.docker.io&scope=repository:$REPO/$IMAGE:pull" \
  | jq --raw-output .token)
curl -LH "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" "$REGISTRY/$REPO/$IMAGE/manifests/$TAG"

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• https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-c1/hardware/hardware
• https://www.tindie.com/products/electrolama/zzh-cc2652r-multiprotocol-rf-stick/

Auth

MFA

https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/authentication/

• enable MFA

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2021-04-07 07:23:15 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event timer_out_of_sync[L]: seconds=1.8326559760000123>
2021-04-07 07:23:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [zigpy_znp.zigbee.application] Probing /dev/serial/by-id/usb-1a86_USB_Serial-if00-port0
2021-04-07 07:23:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [zigpy_znp.uart] Connecting to /dev/serial/by-id/usb-1a86_USB_Serial-if00-port0 at 115200 baud
2021-04-07 07:23:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [zigpy_znp.uart] Opened /dev/serial/by-id/usb-1a86_USB_Serial-if00-port0 serial port
2021-04-07 07:23:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [zigpy_znp.uart] Toggling RTS/CTS to skip CC2652R bootloader
2021-04-07 07:23:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [zigpy_znp.uart] Connected to /dev/serial/by-id/usb-1a86_USB_Serial-if00-port0 at 115200 baud
2021-04-07 07:23:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [zigpy_znp.api] Waiting 1s before sending anything
2021-04-07 07:23:20 DEBUG (MainThread) [zigpy_znp.api] Sending bootloader skip byte
2021-04-07 07:23:20 DEBUG (MainThread) [zigpy_znp.api] Waiting 1s or until a reset indication is recei

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PFsense image to GCE instance

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package main

import (
	"errors"
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"time"
)

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apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: echoheaders
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: echoheaders
  replicas: 1
  template:

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create static IP

gcloud compute addresses create fanout-ingress --region $REGION

Note annotation "fanout-gress" is the name of static IP

 annotations:

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// pubsub attempts to reproduce a client timeout issue.
package main
 
import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"math/rand"
	"os"
	"os/user"
	"sync/atomic"

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Letsencrypt + nginx

sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx
sudo apt-get install nginx