Tootfinder

This is a nice Ansible / Docker tool to manager servers & apps https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/18/this-is-a-nice-ansible

This is in stark contrast to my brief experiences with Ansible, which gave me the feeling of “oh, this is a lot to learn, but I see where they’re going and it makes sense.”
My last Ansible investigation stalled out trying to set up a clean process for issuing Let’s Encrypt certs, and I maybe need to pick those investigations back up again.

Ansible playbook done "enough", everything is now matching. Evidently I did forget to transition one server over to Debian, but got that sorted and now everything is running pretty well.
#ansible #homelab

Me: You have enough going on, give yourself a break.
Also me: Instead of just updating my Mastodon server, I should set up a whole Vagrant and Ansible thing so I can locally reproduce the server and test upgrades locally before I actually apply them to my server.

Vorbildlich: Die Kleinstadt Treuchtlingen setzt seit 25 Jahren konsequent auf Open Source (seit 2001). Thin Clients, LibreOffice, Koha, Jitsi, Owncast, Ansible. Keine Lizenzkosten, volle Souveränität, volle Funktionalität.
Während bayrische Großstädte Millionen (München @… 👀) für KI-Cloud-Deals und M365-Lizenzen ausgeben, beweist Treuchtlingen: E…

Having fun , using gemini to create ansible roles

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