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Updated the Ansible Unifi role

Updated the Ansible Unifi role

After moving my Unifi controller to a new VM, I kept updating its version. Recently, Ubiquiti release a new version (9.0.108 at the moment of writing), which has a bunch of changes. The ones I am concerned with are: 1. The name is changed from unifi-controller to unifi-network-application

UID and GID of default ansible user

UID and GID of default ansible user

Here are three methods to get the UID and GID for the default ansible user. With Ansible facts If you don't disable fact gathering, then your ansible run will have a variable ansible_facts. In this case, you can get the UID and GID directly from it: -

Install SonarQube with Ansible and Docker

Here's an ansible role to install SonarQube via docker-compose.

Access Dynamic Variable in Ansible

Access Dynamic Variable in Ansible

You can make roles generic. See here how

Better Reverse Proxies with SWAG and Ansible

Better Reverse Proxies with SWAG and Ansible

I've updated my swag_reverse_proxy role with more variables for templates!

Install Media Managers with Ansible

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Install Media Managers with Ansible

I've created a role for all your media management needs. Check it out!

Install Plausible with Ansible

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Install Plausible with Ansible

Check this out to find more about Plausible.io with Ansible.

Cloudflare DDNS with Ansible

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Cloudflare DDNS with Ansible

I've created an Ansible role to help you install the Cloudflare DDNS Docker container. Read here about it!

Add Reverse Proxies with SWAG and Ansible

Add Reverse Proxies with SWAG and Ansible

I've created an ansible role to allow me to build reverse proxy configurations and just deploy them.

Ansible - Install SWAG in Docker

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Ansible - Install SWAG in Docker

Recently I've published my first role on the Ansible Galaxy. It's capable to install SWAG on a docker-capable machine. SWAG? From the description: SWAG - Secure Web Application Gateway (formerly known as letsencrypt, no relation to Let's Encrypt™) sets up an Nginx webserver and

Compose a variable from a combination in Ansible

Compose a variable from a combination in Ansible

The other day I was confronted with a bit of a problem in Ansible: I have a role with a docker_container where I use two variables, one defining the user (role_user) and one defining the group (role_group). When both the user and group are defined, they specify

Careful as you go!

Careful as you go!

Yesterday I tried to set up Authentik, but it was failing in gunicorn with an obscure message that a file could not be accessed. I got very frustrated and enabled debug logging in Authentik's server, and I let it run. Big mistake! I forgot about it and the

I Declare Defeat - Mount NFS in Docker

I Declare Defeat - Mount NFS in Docker

Today I've tried to mount a NFS into a docker volume via the following means: 1. Mount the NFS on the host and create a docker volume using the absolute path 2. Create a docker volume via NFS Both variants have failed miserably, in hte sense that I

Setup Ansible on CentOS 8

Setup Ansible on CentOS 8

Today I've started to set up my ESXI CentOS hosts. I wanted to automate everything, including the ansible installation, but I figured it's much easier to write up the commands. Preparation Unfortunately, Ansible is not a pure CentOS package, but EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)

Set up MacOS on ESXi

I've decided to use Ansible to set up a virtual VM with MacOS. I used to have a mac or two, but my hardware is obsolete now (Intel core 2 duo, anyone?) and I can't justify paying a couple of thousand Euros every few years for

My Ansible References

My Ansible References

I've had it with setting up things manually. I've always said I'll automate everything so I make my live easier, but the progress on adding FreeNas jails and configuring them was soo much fun.. Now' I've decided to stop and step