Introduction Like me a lot of you homelabbers will probably roll out multiple Linux servers for production or test purposes. Alot of these tasks repetitive tasks. To make your deploying easier and take less time I will share my Ansible playbooks that I use to do almost all of the […]
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Automate PfSense Configuration Backup via curl
Introduction to PfSense Configuration Backup Configuring backups is one of the critical parts of a healthy system environment. PfSense has multiple options to setup configuration backups. Since recent updates pfSense has the option to configure the AutoConfigBackup Service that is build in the software. This is a great and easy […]
Continue readingInstalling VMware PowerCLI on Linux or macOS
Introduction PowerCLI is a command-line interface for managing and automating all aspects of vSphere management, including networking, storage, VMs, guest OS, and more.PowerCLI functions as a collection of PowerShell modules that contain more than 700 cmdlets (commands) to manage VMware infrastructure. PowerCLI runs on top of PowerShell. PowerShell used to […]
Continue readingHardening SSH with Ansible
Introduction This blog post is going to be about hardening your SSH config with Ansible. This guide will be build upon my earlier post about Updating your Homelab with Ansible and Configuring Linux users and SSH keys with Ansible. This post is mainly focused on Ubuntu/Debian systems. For other distro’s […]
Continue readingConfiguring Linux users and SSH keys with Ansible
Introduction This is my third post about doing things with Ansible. For more info about Ansible take a look at my other posts about Updating your Homelab with Ansible and Installing Hyper-V Linux Integration Services (LIS) with Ansible. For now lets continu with configuring Linux users and deploying SSH keys […]
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