Ansible community is not a monolith but a community of communities. We have 20+ sub-projects inside the Ansible ecosystem [https://docs.ansible.com/ecosystem.html]. Sometimes it is nearly impossible to keep track of what is happening on the other part of the project. Ansible Community Days are an initiative…
Snowflake [https://snowflake.torproject.org/] is a technology to allow people from all over the world to access censored applications and websites. > Similar to how VPNs assist users in getting around Internet censorship, Snowflake helps you avoid being noticed by Internet censors by making your Internet activity appear as…
I am spending my days with Ansible [https://www.ansible.com/] and Kubernetes [https://kubernetes.io/]. This means I am writing YAML [https://yaml.org/] files all day long. I invariably spend a significant portion of my working hours fixing indentations in the YAML files. I am sure this is…
The VirtualHost [https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/examples.html] directive in Apache [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server] configuration enables us to run multiple websites on a single server. I wanted to have two different VirtualHost entries for the same domain on different IPv4 [https:…
For one of my learning projects I needed have passwordless sudo access for a user and group (my sys-admin brain goes "urg urg!"). * sudo access to a group which does not have sudo power * sudo access to a user who does not have a sudo power, not a…
I am trying to work on my sys-admin skills for a some time now. I was already maintaining my own blog, I was pondering to learn Ansible [https://ansible.com]. DGPLUG [https://dgplug.org] was planning to create a new Qubes OS mirror. So I took the opportunity to learn…