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How Kopia Led Me to Rethink Python Virtual Environments
It all started last week when I backed up my distro’s home directory using Kopia. Thanks to high compression, the backup size was only one-third of the original. I credited this to Kopia’s compression and de-duplication and moved on, assuming my text-heavy code repositories were just highly compressible. Today, I...
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Docker OpenWISP: Overcoming Management Tunnel Challenges
When OpenWISP is deployed over public infrastructure to manage devices geographically distributed over the internet, a management tunnel is required to perform essential network operations and monitoring checks. The Docker OpenWISP project is an ongoing effort to support deploying OpenWISP using Docker. It creates separate services to handle different aspects...
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From Modules to Manuals: Unifying OpenWISP Docs
OpenWISP draws inspiration from the Unix philosophy: Do one thing and do it well. This modular approach has shaped OpenWISP’s architecture, where separate modules handle specific functionalities such as the controller, monitoring, firmware upgrades, etc. While this modularity offers flexibility, it also presents a challenge — fragmented documentation. “Let’s have...
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Adding WireGuard to Docker OpenWISP
Last summer, I worked on adding WireGuard support to OpenWISP. And after a year of testing, improvements and production deployments, I am containerizing that work for docker-openwisp. The Ansible solution we developed to deploy this feature in ansible-wireguard-openwisp bundles an updater application with the WireGuard server. Each WireGuard VPN server...
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Fixing notification storm of OpenWISP Notification
OpenWISP Notifications brought the notification functionality to OpenWISP. It provided a handy abstraction to create notifications for different events triggered in OpenWISP. Hence allowing users to stay updated on their networks. But there existed a major shortcoming of OpenWISP Notifications, the notification storm. Whenever there is an event that affects...