# Dan Scarf

> The personal site and writing of Dan Scarf — notes on software, building things, and whatever else.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://danscarf.com/): site index and recent posts
- [About](https://danscarf.com/about/): about Dan Scarf
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## Recent posts

- [Network Segmentation for On-Premises Kubernetes with VLANs and pfSense](https://danscarf.com/posts/securely-exposing-on-premises-kubernetes-services/) (2026-05-06): The unglamorous first step for an on-premises Kubernetes cluster: carving a flat LAN into VLANs so the workloads above it have a security boundary worth building on.
- [Hello, world (again)](https://danscarf.com/posts/hello-world/) (2026-05-05): A new home for the writing and tinkering — replacing the old WordPress site with something I actually own end-to-end.
- [Run Wordpress on Ubuntu using Terraform, Ansible and Docker](https://danscarf.com/posts/run-wordpress-on-ubuntu-using-terraform-ansible-and-docker/) (2020-02-17): Preface If you've ever installed Wordpress from scratch, you know what a challenge it can be. I wanted to make installing Wordpress a bit easier and to do…
- [Use Chef to manage multiple instances of Tomcat on a single server](https://danscarf.com/posts/use-chef-to-manage-multiple-instances-of-tomcat-on-a-single-server/) (2019-03-20): Overview In this article I will demonstrate how to use Chef to manage multiple instances of Apache Tomcat on the same server. Background Containerization has…
- [Free Automated Blog on AWS](https://danscarf.com/posts/free-automated-blog-on-aws/) (2019-01-02): New Year -- New Blog A student asked me to help set up a simple, static website. He wanted to learn a little about AWS, and at the same time stay within his…
- [Microservices - My Journey to Cutting Edge Software](https://danscarf.com/posts/microservices-journey-cutting-edge/) (2017-06-03): Introduction Microservices are all the rage these days. I'm part of a team that is relatively new to the current trend of software architecture, and we're…
- [Collision Detection in JavaScript Games](https://danscarf.com/posts/collision-detection-in-javascript-games/) (2015-07-07): Collision Detection in JavaScript Games Learn how to code up your own collision detection when you're writing your own games in JavaScript using the HTML5…
- [Yay! Our First Game Published](https://danscarf.com/posts/first-game-published/) (2015-07-05): New Game Announcing the release of a brand new game named Pew pew. This game represents hours of work that started off as a simple demonstration of some modern…