Automation – Dicking with Docker

Wildcard LetsEncrypt renewal with Ansible and Memset

By Simon Weald | 7th August 201830th May 2020 by Simon Weald

Obtaining a wildcard LetsEncrypt cert with Ansible Earlier this year, LetsEncrypt made their wildcard x509 certificates available to the general public. Whilst this is a massive step forward over individual certificates for each domain, it does come with the overhead of having to distribute the wildcard certificate to the (possibly many) places you would use it. Ignoring that issue for now, I wrote a quick Ansible playbook which uses the dns-01 challenge method and my…

Ansible module development gotchas

By Simon Weald | 27th June 201830th May 2020 by Simon Weald

Having spent quite some time working on my initial modules to integrate with Memset, I’ve assembled a small list of dos and don’ts from some of my stumbling points.

Over-engineering my website with Kubernetes

By Simon Weald | 18th March 201830th May 2020 by Simon Weald

A solution in need of a problem Like all good sysadmins, my personal website has been a ‘coming soon’ splash page for quite some time. According to the Wayback Machine, it’s been this way since some time in 2014. As I’m sure many can sympathise with, there are always far more interesting and shiny things to be experimenting with than building a website.

Deploying Kubernetes on VMs with Kubespray

By Simon Weald | 9th August 201730th May 2020 by Simon Weald

All the choices So you’re looking to start using Kubernetes, but you’re overwhelmed by the multitude of deployment options available? Judging by the length of the Picking the Right Solution section to the Kubernetes docs, it’s safe to assume that you’re not alone. Even after you’ve made it past the provisioning stage, you then need to learn how to administrate what is a very complex system. In short; Kubernetes is not easy.

Ansible Node Bootstrapping

By admin | 4th August 201730th May 2020 by admin

When you receive a new server, there are a variety of pre-requisites required before Ansible can be used to administrate the host.