Why Ansible?
As part of an effort of standardising my home lab I decided to migrate my ad-hoc configuration scripts into a more standard tool set. So I looked at: puppet chef ...
As part of an effort of standardising my home lab I decided to migrate my ad-hoc configuration scripts into a more standard tool set. So I looked at: puppet chef ...
Introduction Origins Why use OpenTofu Using OpenTofu ...
This is an example of a socket-activated per-connection service (which is usually referred to as inetd-like service). A thorough explanation can be found at 0pointer.de. Define a socket unit The key point here is to specify Accept=yes, which will make the socket accept connections (behaving like inetd) and pass ...
This is a small recipe to increase the security around a SFTP interface. In the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file include the following settings: Subsystem sftp internal-sftp This configures the sftp subsystem to use the internal sftp implementation. This is because inside the chroot, we usually will not have the normal ...
After looking a multiple options of GUI programming under python I eventually settled for tkinter. The main reason was that tkinter is very ubiquitous and initially though the learning curve wuld have shorter as I was very used to GUI programming using TCL/TK. Turned out that what I known TCL/TK did not translate ...
This article is here as a reminder. So, for testing, I needed to configure a Cisco CSR1000V virtual router as a bridge. So I used a version 16 Cisco IOS XE image. To make my life easier I used the "wizard" that runs the first time to automatically configure bridgning. Ironically, this created an invalid ...
This recipe is for tunneling NFS traffic over SSH. This adds encryption and Public Key authentication to otherwise insecure NFS traffic. For this recipe to work, requires NFSv4. Earlier versions were not tested, but I expect not all the functionality to work. server configuration ...
Introduction Input Data Desired Output Approach Original Script ...
Some bash one-liners: echo ${!X*} Will print all the names of variables whos name starts with X. To output the contents of a variable so it can be parsed by bash ...