Mohamed Bana’s Substack

Firecracker: Getting started

This post is about how to get started using Firecracker.

Feb 18 • Mohamed Bana

Kubernetes: Setup grafana/loki-stack on a cluster for monitoring

This is an example of how to setup Grafana Loki stack on a Kubernetes cluster.

Feb 7 • Mohamed Bana

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November 2025

Community Fibre: How to get an extra ~123Mbps increase in download and upload speed

Bypassing the ISP issued ONT by using an SFP+ module that has 8311 Firmware

Nov 4, 2025 • Mohamed Bana

August 2025

Multi-node k3s cluster using Vagrant with the virtualbox provider

Bring a multi-node `k3s` (Kubernetes) cluster running on Alpine.

Aug 5, 2025 • Mohamed Bana

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Two useful ripgrep (`rg`) and fd (`fd-find`) aliases

Often when searching you want to exclude certain directories.

Aug 5, 2025 • Mohamed Bana

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May 2025

Run Visual Studio Code as root on Linux

Run `code` as root on Linux

May 28, 2025 • Mohamed Bana

February 2025

Keychron K5 Max ISO RGB on Ubuntu 24.04

`udev` rules for Keychron keyboards on Linux.

Feb 11, 2025 • Mohamed Bana

August 2024

Installing nerdctl (contaiNERD CTL) and BuildKit

A Docker-compatible CLI for Containerd

Aug 15, 2024 • Mohamed Bana

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November 2023

Envoy Proxy: Compiling on Fedora 38

It took me a while to get Envoy Proxy to compile natively on Fedora 38 so I am documenting it in order that I don't forget.

Nov 11, 2023 • Mohamed Bana

January 2023

MetalLB: Configuration for minikube

This post is about how to configure `MetalLB` for `minikube`.

Jan 25, 2023 • Mohamed Bana

October 2018

Golang: `httputil.NewSingleHostReverseProxy`

HTTP(S) Proxy

Oct 23, 2018 • Mohamed Bana

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July 2018

Caddy: Reverse Proxy

A reverse proxy using Caddy.

Jul 31, 2018 • Mohamed Bana

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