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How I manage SSL certificates for my homelab with Letsencrypt and Ansible
I have a fairly sizable homelab, consisting of some Raspberry Pi 4s, some Intel Nucs, a Synology NAS with a VM running on it and a number of free VMs in Oracle cloud. All these machines run RHEL …
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Developing Ansible Automation content on Apple Silicon
I love Linux. Always have, always will. I run Linux (mostly RHEL and Fedora) on a multitude of devices, from Raspberry Pi's to an old laptop functioning as a server, and VMs on my NAS. But I have also ended up (long story) doing a lot of work on MacOS …
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Sharing a set of Headphones between MacOS and Fedora
Well, the answer to the 'why?' question is quite simple: because I dual boot between MacOS and Fedora on my Mac Mini. This means in order to use the same pair of headphones on MacOS and Fedora …
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Using a GraphQL endpoint from an Ansible playbook
I recently had to call a GraphQL API from an Ansible playbook, and considering I had never done that before and there is little to no documentation about this online, it was a bit tricky. In the end, I got everything working …
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Building a load balanced Ansible Tower cluster
As you might know, I do a bit of YouTubing. One video request I got a couple of times, was to do a video about clustering Ansible Tower behind a load balancer. As I had never done that before myself, it sounded interesting, so I …
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Fish, bash, zsh
Over the last year, I've been using fish as my shell on Linux. Before that, I have tried both zsh (with and without oh-my-zsh) and bash. For bash, I wrote my own configuration framework, which - let's be real - everyone needs to do and probably has done at …
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Using proper FreeIPA certificates on Cockpit
A couple of years ago, I did a video on Youtube on using FreeIPA / IdM certificates in Cockpit. According to some comments (that I only saw way after the fact...), for some people, my way of doing that didn't work. Therefore, I redid the video for RHEL7 …
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Wrong colors with Solarized theme in shell
I like Solarized, but every now and then, I switch to a different theme just to check it out. Eventually, I'll go back to Solarized, and run into the same problem over and over: I'll end up having this Instead of this: Meaning a lot of the colors …
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Ventoy, multiboot DVD creator
Quick blog. The other day, I was looking for a tool to create a USB drive with multiple installer ISOs on it. Mainly, I needed a Fedora installer DVD (for my laptop, to make the switch to btrfs), and a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 DVD …
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Shut up, auditd!
(Happy 2021, may it be better than 2020!) On my tiny, Raspberry Pi based Fedora systems, I have a lot of audit messages in my journal. And I mean a lot, I mean like over 50,000 over the course of 9 days. That's over 5,500 per …
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