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Building an Ansible training environment with FreeBSD jails.
https://jpmens.net/2019/12/11/on-building-an-ansible-training-environment-on-freebsd/
saved 2019-12-12

#FreeSoftwareAdvent for today: #Ansible
It's what I'm using to provision and update our renderfarm, workstations and servers. Instead of hacking shell scripts to install apps and edit config files on every new workstation you write yaml files ("playbooks") that get e…

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

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

Out goes Ansible, in comes Nix
... plus Stow to better manage my messy dotfiles

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.

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.

Having fun , using gemini to create ansible roles

Mal etwas in beruflicher Funktion...
Wir suchen Cloud-Engineers in meinem Team bei der Hetzner Cloud, die sich mit BMCs, Ansible, QEMU/KVM, Go, etc. auskennen:
https://hetzner-cloud.de/jobs/2479946
100% remote, DE only :BoostOK:
Geht um den Betrieb der eigentlichen Plattform, alles…

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…

Is anyone using Packer and VMware and Rocky Linux? I'm having an issue with Rocky 10 and the packer boot. Using the example boot command here https://docs.rockylinux.org/10/guides/automation/templates-automation-packer-vsphere/ I end up with a …

New to Indiekit? Read the full deployment guide — a step-by-step walkthrough covering server setup, DNS, configuration, first-run password creation, syndication, webmentions, and the full plugin set.
https://github.com/rmdes/indiekit-deploy/blob/main/docs/deployme…