Setting Up Site-to-Site VPN between My Homelab and AWS

References Simulating Site-to-Site VPN Customer Gateways Using strongSwan AWS Site-to-Site VPN with IPSec VPN (Strongwan) and BGP (FRRouting) Building a Scalable and Secure Multi-VPC AWS Network Infrastructure

<span title='2020-11-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>November 16, 2020</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;David Xiao

Convert Any Image Into Pixel Art Using Gimp

If you like to add some vintage like retro game feeling to your website, try use pixel art images might be a good idea. Here’s a quick howto.

<span title='2020-11-09 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>November 9, 2020</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;David Xiao

Differences Between AWS Route 53 Failover and AWS ELB LB

This post provides clarity over the differences between AWS R3 failover and ELB LB.

<span title='2020-11-07 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>November 7, 2020</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;David Xiao

Differences between On-Prem Networking and Cloud Networking

This post discusses some of the major differences between on-prem data center networking and cloud networking.

<span title='2020-11-06 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>November 6, 2020</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;David Xiao

Create VMs on Proxmox With Terraform

Create new VMs on Proxmox by using API and cloning from existing VM template. All code is in Terraform. Sample code is provided on github repo.

<span title='2020-11-03 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>November 3, 2020</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;David Xiao