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Ansible

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:10:12 -0600

How I use ansible

This is a quick summary of how I use Ansible to setup my environment. Bare in mind that I’m not an expert or anything. I’m just showing you how I user it to make my life a little saner.

I have 3 main classes of playbooks that I use.

Setup Server
Setup Service
Setup Workstation

Setup Server

This is one of my bigger ansible playbook. It does a lot of little things but it does them to all the systems in my environment. So when I first spin up a new VM, I start by assigning it a static IP (and maybe DNS entry) in my DHCP server, then I add it’s IP to my inventory file an re-run the playbook.

Back

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:00:00 -0600

Haven’t posted in a while. What have I been doing? Not sitting on my a** that’s for sure. …well I have. But only cause I haven’t gotten a standing desk yet. …anyways.

Homelab

To backup, the first things I’ve done in building out my IT was not the blog. I’ve building servers and networking since 2020. Most of what I do is in my garage.

I have a 64GB 16 Core box that turns electricity into heat. I also have a couple other compute boxes and NASes and routers and switches and Pi all doing… stuff… I’ll get into the hardware and the stack at… some point.

dans-site init

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 10:00:00 -0600

This is the fist page post. Followed the guide from Techno Tim to build this site. Then push this site into a doocker file, also from on of Techno Tim’s guides.

UPDATE: Migrated to Hugo see my latest post for more details.

What did I do?

Build Jekyll

Step one is to install ruby, then use gem to install jekyll and bundler.

On Ubuntu
```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ruby-full build-essential zlib1g-dev git
```
On MacOS