Ansible
Ansible - Vault
I have an Ansible playbook and want to set a password for my brand-new MariaDB instance. Do I need a secret management system like Hashicorp Vault, Bitwarden or something else like gopass?
Daniel Schier
Just a guy doing stuff. Mostly #FLOSS like #Linux, #Ansible, #Podman, #k8s, #Python, #Nextcloud or whatever comes next. You can also find me on Mastodon (https://fosstodon.org/@dschier).
Linux
Systemd - systemctl (including Cheat Sheet)
I promised these articles for quite some time. Let's finally start with some systemd. Hated, loved, ranted about, praised ... Well, let's say systemd is at least controversial. Still, it is built-in in the majority of Linux distributions. But why is it so? How does it work?
Podman
Podman - Quadlets
Podman is the daemonless drop-in Docker replacement and has exceptional systemd support. With Quadlets, this support became even better and the hassle to work with systemd unit files is gone. It was never this easy to define your containers as systemd services.
Off Topic
Offtopic - 3 years of blogging
Already 3 years passed since the first article on this blog. Let me take some time to talk about the things that happened, how the project changed, and how it feels to work continuously on something that does not profit in a single penny.
Hardware
Linux - Laptop vendors 2023
If you use Linux on the Laptop, you might have some issues here or there with warranties or even proper support from a vendor. But, there are some vendors out there, that do support Linux and some of them even ship their machines with Linux.
DevOps
DevOps - plain/text (2/2)
One of the major misconceptions of DevOps is, that it is complicated and sophisticated. Quite the contrary is the case. It is also about reducing the cognitive load in a team and doing more with less.
DevOps
DevOps - plain/text (1/2)
Many people think of DevOps as something technical, something complicated and hard to understand. But, it's quite the contrary. DevOps is based on methodologies like Lean or Kanban and aims to make the life easier. But what does this have to do with plaintext?
Ansible
Spotlight - ARA records Ansible
Do you use Ansible? Maybe even in a pipeline or across teams? Chances are high that you might want to track your changes and last runs in a nice overview with ARA. Let's check out the nifty tool and investigate how it can help you with keeping on top.
Featuring
Featuring - Luca Berton
Luca is the brain behind awesome projects like Ansible Pilot and AI liberator. He also wrote a couple of books and is present on many community events. Let's find out what motivates Luca to be such a strong part of the community, maybe take a peek behind the scenes and learn about him as a person.
Podman
Podman - Remote Management
Podman is the daemonless, rootless drop-in replacement for Docker. Furthermore, you can manage containers on a remote machine without connecting to it first. With Podman's remote capabilities, this is just a matter of configuration files.
Ansible
Spotlight - Steampunk Spotter (Ansible)
Ansible is easy, simple, and powerful, right? Sure, and it is a pain to get it right. There are various tools that are meant to help you with Ansible. Let's take a look at Steampunk Spotter, a quality assurance tool, that makes it easy to improve your Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections.
Fedora
Release - Fedora Linux 39
Are 6 months already over? It feels like yesterday that Fedora Linux 38 was released. Well, the new release looks really promising. We are finally having an option to boot without GRUB, Modularity is ceased, Linux Kernel 6.5 and much more.
DevOps
DevOps - 4 Conflicts
Working in a DevOps world means, that everything is automated, fully tested, made in one team, …, right? Well, no. It means that we are having a culture, that supports DevOps approaches. But it also means, that we are having a couple of conflicts, that need to be solved.
Golang
Go - Getting Started
It's finally time for my very first programming article. In the past, you have seen articles about Ansible, Podman and Linux, mostly. But what about making your own program? In this article, we will get started with Go.
RaspberryPi
Release - Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm)
Right after the release of the Raspberry Pi 5, we are getting a new Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian Bookworm. It features some pretty interesting changes on the Desktop, but also got nice features for the Lite variant.
Ansible
Spotlight - Ansible Semaphore
Ansible is a simple, yet proven way to automate your server configuration, cloud deployments and many other things. Yet, most people know Ansible on the command line, which is perfectly fine for CI/CD or if you like to work with text.