Why do anything manually when you can use Ansible?As I wrote here, I created an Active Directory domain and joined a single test VM to the domain. Now I'll be writing about automating this process with ansible so that I can configure all my machines effortlessly. Goals of this…
I set up an Active Directory domain for my HomeLab. I'm still learning a lot about Active Directory as it is such a large piece of software. Configuring Active DirectoryInstallation was pretty simple and I'm not going to go over that as there is a vast amount of documentation available.…
I've wanted to switch to pfSense for so long. Now I finally did it. For the last year, I've used a Sagemcom F-3686ACv2 all-in-one modem that my ISP enforces. This piece of plastic has been a major pain in the ass. Sometimes it drops the whole WI-FI and other times…
Now that I've started using ansible I wanted to organize my hosts a bit better. I'm using static IP addresses but my hostnames have been all around the place. As I have less than 10 machines right now, I wanted a fun naming scheme for my hostnames. After browsing naming…
https://xkcd.com/1319/Setting up new RHEL 8 VMs was getting a tad bit too manual and I decided it was time to automate that. As I only need a dozen machines and my NAS is still a work-in-progress, setting up Cobbler seemed like too big of a hassle…
I wanted to start a blog and here we are. This blog you are reading right now is using Ghost and is completely self-hosted. The process was quite painless but there were a few hiccups along the way. In this post, I will be going through the steps that I…