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Anton Belodedenko

Anton Belodedenko

I am a jack of all trades, master of none (DevOps). My wife and I ski, snowboard and rock climb. Oh, and I like Futurama, duh!

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Hard Plastic (part one - shredit)

Take a crash course in mechanical engineering by building a plastic shredding machine.

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bees

Bees in the basement?

Flow hive in the basement/cellar with seven frames. What could possibly go wrong, right?

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brew

Oyster Mushrooms @ Home

Oyster mushrooms grow on cardboard and spent coffee grinds and it's fairly straight forward to rig up a kit in your garage, etc. to have an endless supply of juicy, meaty mushrooms. 📦🍄😬

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brew

Got Apples? Make (hard) Cider. 🍺

Hard cider on a budget using mostly recycled/up-cycled kit, a few bits from Home Depot and minimal specialist hardware from a brew supplier.

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belodetek Ltd.

on reducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk costs... 💰

Deploy AWS Elastic Beanstalk with EC2 Auto Scaling MixedInstances policy using only CloudFormation and cut AWS costs without sacrificing up-time. 🤑

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belodetek Ltd.

Deploy private CAs with CloudFormation

Create private CA programmatically in AWS using CloudFormation without manual intervention 🤓

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belodetek Ltd.

G Suite authentication at the load-balancer

Authenticate G Suite users at the load-balancer with AWS Cognito, ALBv2 and SAML. Deploy automatically with CFN using our generic custom resource provider.

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belodetek Ltd.

CloudFormation Generic Custom Resources

CloudFormation generic custom resource provider written in Python. Effectively a CFN to (boto3)API bridge with Lambda. Stop creating a new custom_resource.py for every feature CFN doesn't support and generalize it! 👊🤓

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belodetek Ltd.

Bypass age verification in UK for porn sites

Bypass age verification in UK for porn sites with a VPN (router).

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belodetek Ltd.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Couchbase?

Deploy Couchbase Community edition using CloudFormation into a dynamic ECS cluster and scale the Couchbase cluster using a custom orchestrator container (Bash script).

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Netflix Un-blocker

DIY residential proxy network

Build a private residential proxy network using Windows, Linux and macOS desktop PCs by following http://app.belodetek.io#instructions

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Our Van Conversion

Welcome to Canada, mains power restored...

My wife and I have been travelling in our converted van across continental Europe in 2016/17. Towards the middle of our trip, we decided to fast track our plans to move to

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Netflix Un-blocker

black.box

TL;DR to unblock Netflix find a Pi and follow this You must have heard about VPNs by now. Thanks to some very arbitrary content licensing laws, availability of content on the Internet,

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Belodedexit

Pickled Lactarius

My personal view on wild mushrooms is best described by my reaction to a British Mycological Society beautifully illustrated pamphlet, where the authors unceremoniously brushed away the question of edibility of various wild

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Our Van Conversion

Mobile Satellite Internet for under £200? Yes you can...

In order to have unfettered access to cats and cucumbers videos on YouTube in the most remote places in Europe, we decided we absolutely had to have satellite Internet. Our chosen system operates

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Home Improvement

Three Tier Kitchen Island Bench

An oak kitchen island bench, from my DIY back catalogue. This one was made from 3m x 620mm x 38mm oak worktop, cut into 1m lengths (by the manufacturer), four 60mm diameter brushed

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Home Improvement

Knock, knock..

We've had a coffee machine for decades now, but have been flushing coffee grinds down the drain and in the last five or so years scooping them out with a teaspoon into a

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FortiGate

FortiWifi interface monitor and fail-over

A FortiWifi firewall can be configured as a wireless bridge as follows[n1]: config system global set wireless-mode client end A side effect of doing this, is that the resulting wifi internal interface

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Netflix Un-blocker

Unblock and watch any Netflix title from anywhere..

Always visit the official netflix-proxy page on GitHub for the most up-to-date version of this article. TL;DR find a Debian or Ubuntu box with root on a clean public IP and run:

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Home Improvement

Portable Jamon Iberico Stand

Clamps onto any table top to allow carving in the field or if room is at a premium in the house. Materials I used a few bits and pieces already on hand, with

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Our Van Conversion

Electronics and the Other Odd Jobs

With all the major work now complete, it was time to focus on the seemingly never-ending long tail of small jobs, including comms, stereo, etc. A customary note, if you just want to

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Our Van Conversion

On the Roof...

As summer rolled by and autumn rains kicked off, it was naturally time for me to get on the roof to install the solar panels and find a new home for the spare

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Our Van Conversion

Curtains, Roof Bars, Awning and Roof Box..

My wife and I are almost finished converting a delivery van into a motorhome. The main bits of work are now complete and you can see the entire collection of posts here. If

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Our Van Conversion

Water Works

My wife and I are converting a delivery van into a motorhome in the following three phases: Lining and insulation Furniture and bedding Gas, water and electrical This post deals with the water

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Our Van Conversion

And There Was Light (or The Van eBay Built)...

My wife and I are converting a delivery van into a motorhome in the following three phases: Lining and insulation Furniture and bedding Gas, water and electrical This post deals mostly with the

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