Sam Mesterton-Gibbons

@samdbmg

Manchester-based techie, Senior R&D Engineer at BBC R&D

Manchester, UKJoined November 2022

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I'm a Manchester-based techie who likes building systems to solve interesting problems, with interests in media and video production and sustainability.

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SMSam Mesterton-Gibbonsblog.samn.co.ukSep 12, 2024 · 2 min read

Netboot with Proxy DHCP

samdbmg/dhcp-netboot.xyz is a Docker container that can be dropped into your network to netbook various OS installers and tools. It lets your existing DHCP server hand out addresses, and then acts as a PXE Proxy for clients that want to use netboot. ...

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SMSam Mesterton-Gibbonsblog.samn.co.ukSep 12, 2024 · 5 min read

Implementing SSO with Traefik

samdbmg/ansible-traefik-auth-proxy combines the Traefik reverse proxy with thomseddon/traefik-forward-auth to provide HTTP reverse proxying, certificate handling with LetsEncrypt and SSO login, either as an Ansible role or a Docker Compose project. T...

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SMSam Mesterton-Gibbonsblog.samn.co.ukSep 12, 2024 · 8 min read

Using Ansible for my self-hosted apps

I self-host a variety of apps on my own infrastructure, and make extensive use of Ansible playbooks to keep it all running, document everything as code and make it easy to run up new environments to test changes without breaking everything! This post...

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SMSam Mesterton-Gibbonsblog.samn.co.ukSep 7, 2024 · 6 min read

How to upgrade TimescaleDB (and PostgreSQL) in a container

I have a TimescaleDB container running on my home server, and recently I wanted to upgrade it from PostgreSQL 13 to PostgreSQL 16. This post documents the process I settled on (and hints at the false starts along the way!) I have a handful of sensors...

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SMSam Mesterton-Gibbonsblog.samn.co.ukJan 22, 2023 · 4 min read

ROM upgrade on Asus Nexus 7 2013 (flo)

I have an old Asus Nexus 7 2013 tablet (codename flo) which is still serving me well ten years on, but occasionally I decide I want to put a newer LineageOS ROM on it, or generally reflash it. Unfortunately, I do this sufficiently infrequently that I...

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Netboot with Proxy DHCP

Implementing SSO with Traefik

Using Ansible for my self-hosted apps

How to upgrade TimescaleDB (and PostgreSQL) in a container

ROM upgrade on Asus Nexus 7 2013 (flo)

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Sam Mesterton-Gibbons's blogs

Recently published

Netboot with Proxy DHCP

Implementing SSO with Traefik

Using Ansible for my self-hosted apps

How to upgrade TimescaleDB (and PostgreSQL) in a container

ROM upgrade on Asus Nexus 7 2013 (flo)