October 19, 2023
Over the last few years, I’ve moved many of my systems to Immutable versions of Fedora.
One of the last systems still missing was my Hetzner Dedicated server.
The blocking part for me was that Hetzner is not offering any Fedora or Immutable options.
However, Hetzner provides the Rescue System, which is a Debian system, so it is possible to leverage it!
After rebooting in Rescue mode:
Go to Hetzner Robot.
Select the proper server.
Go to the “Rescue” tab.
Click “Activate rescue system” after properly selecting the Public Key and keyboard layout.
You can now reboot the machine, and after it boots back up, you can log in to the Rescue System.
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May 23, 2022
We have seen a massive increase in the “real world” dependency on digital services in the last few years.
This process will probably continue in the future, and we are not ready for it.
In the same few years, we have seen a lot of cases where digital services went offline or got hacked.
In a society that relies more and more on digital services, we can not afford such services not to be available or secure.
Although security is essential, I want to focus on availability for now.
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April 26, 2017
After many years of using Hetzner as a server provider, and having rented from them multiple servers for many reasons, I decided to rent a server with 128Gb of RAM to do some tests with many (virtualized) machines on top of CentOS.
As it often happens, hosting providers put in place a lot of security measurements that sometimes make doing simple stuff more complex.
The first approach I tried was using the (only) Ethernet interface as a bridged interface, but that did not brought me very far.
Speaking with the support they pointed out that it was impossible in my setup, so I moved to the second option: the broute.
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