Ansible TIFU Photo by Daniel Watson Automation tools make our lives easier. They provide templates and provisioning instructions to build and maintain systems with ease and can save hours and days worth of repetitive work.
Arm Libre ROC-RK3328-CC (Renegade) - Jenkins CI/CD on an SBC In this project, I will be running Jenkins on a single board computer. The Renegade has a bit more power than a Raspberry pi 3B+ and is handling Jenkins well enough. I use
Arm Odroid HC-1 Cluster Build With a little inspiration from the 200TB Glusterfs Odroid HC-2 Build posted to /r/DataHoarder/ a while back and a whole lot of bonus.ly dollars from work, I have finally completed my
Docker Docker Swarm monitoring - part 02 (Fixes, Cadvisor, and Pihole) In part 01, I deployed node exporter, Prometheus, and Grafana. This time around, I will touch on some of the problems I've run into since then and how I solved them. I'll tack
Docker Automating the deployment of a publicly hosted Ark Survival Evolved server with Jenkins and Ansible AWX on Docker Swarm The purpose of this project is to educate others that want to break into the world of DevOps or just wanting to bring more automation into their homelab. Plus, serve as a fun
Docker The 2U Mini-ITX ZFS NAS Docker build - Part 2 of 2 In part 1 of this story, I give a price listing of all the hardware that went into the new 2U NAS/Docker host and pictures of how it all went together. With
Ansible ansbile-vim - Creating and testing an ansible role with molecule. Vim is my favorite text editor and a tool that I use every day at work and at home. If you are in the IT field, you can relate that a text editor
Vagrant Vagrantfile with multiple boxes - Ubuntu 16.04 & Fedora 27 Info Fedora Ubuntu Hostname fedora27 ubuntu16 IP 192.168.33.11 192.168.33.12 Box bento/fedora-27 bento/ubuntu-16.04 Virtual CPU cores 2 2 CPU usage cap 50% 50% RAM 2G
Linux Trialing Ansible AWX The upstream for Ansible Tower, awx project, is in development and worth checking out. It's pretty painless to get up and running in a testing environment for trial purposes. You'll need a system
Ansible Provisioning a pi with ansible Learn to setup a raspberry pi with the base needed to get rolling with ansible provisioning. With a setup like this you can ease future project deployments and save everything to code control
Ansible Arch linux install with ansible provisioning Here's how I get a quick arch linux workstation up and running with everything I need for a development environment. You can check out the source code on github to follow along. This
Ansible Moving to the cloud I will be moving to northern Idaho in less than a month and will need somewhere else to host homelab during the time it takes to do so. I already have an Amazon
Ansible Docker Swarm using an old laptop I'm using an old Samsung R580 laptop to create a docker swarm cluster of one. I plan on adding a couple of 1u servers to this later, as I can afford it. Once
