Introduction

I recently ran into a frustration while working on some Ansible roles. I was attempting to use an Ansible handler to reset the SSH connection after making a change to a user.

My role was attempting to install Docker, add the Ansible User to the Docker Group, and deploy a container. …

TechnoTim has a great video on how to deploy ubuntu VMs on proxmox using cloud init. I’ve used this exact guide to deploy my machines for years now, and even automated it with Ansible. Now, I’m attempting to expand my Ansible roles to support other potential operating systems that I may …

Learn Git in Five Minutes

The purpose of this post is to get you up and running with git in about 5 minutes. If it takes you longer than that… well, I don’t have an SLA associated with this post so, maybe just read faster.

You’ll learn enough to get you curious. This won’t …

If you’ve followed my recent posts, you’ll know that I’ve been on a learning journey to pick up Ansible for automating my homelab. The goal was to have one master playbook, ‘one playbook to rule them all,’ which would not only handle configuring servers and managing my services running in Docker but …

Earlier this week I tried using Ansible to declaratively define the VMs in my homelab’s Proxmox cluster. My method of attack was to basically ‘lift and shift’ my manual methods into an automation platform.

What do I mean by this? Well, my manual method was to right-click and clone a cloud-init …

I’ve recently been playing with Ansible in my homelab. I love that it’s agent-less, simple and idempotent. You don’t need to install any software on your targets to get started; you just need to be able to SSH into them. If you can SSH into it, you can deploy configs with Ansible. It’s really that …