ansible

For the needs of an incoming project, that I’ll describe in a later post, I needed to automate public access configuration for existing web applications. In other words, I needed to automate, proxy vhost configuration, tls termination and dns registration on a given domain. What is presented here has been used on a simple libvirt/KVM architecture (managed as described in my latest post). The workflow is this one: deploy the DNS entry deploy nginx vhost for the given webapp and domain name (allowing access to . [Read More]

I you are, like me, concerned about privacy, you may be the administrator of a few physical servers, either at home or rented to some dedicated server providers. Virtual machine instances (or VPS) bought in public clouds are great, but if you can’t configure yourself the underlying network and the hypervisors, where is the fun ? (just kidding, there is so much to do above a cloud-like infrastructure too). Here I’ll describe a little configuration I made for my own needs. [Read More]

How to make ansible run on debian 9 ? Ansible version running: 2.3.1.0 Recently I upgraded personnal servers to debian stretch, as it is the new stable version. By default, the only python version installed on stretch is python3 which is not ok for ansible playbooks to execute properly. I already met that kind of issue (like everyone else) on Ubuntu above version 16.04. Obviously the solution is to install python2. [Read More]