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Vault and Ansible, Best Buddies

Oct 7, 2025 · 5 min read · Terraform and Ansible made a great team in our last post. Now let's see how Ansible pairs with HashiCorp Vault to keep your secrets under lock and key. If you've ever worried about tokens or passwords leaking in your playbooks, this PoC shows a clean...

Terraform and Ansible, Best Buddies

Jul 31, 2025 · 3 min read · You might be already know that Terraform and Ansible are both champs in their own domains. Terraform is the master of provisioning infrastructure on cloud. Ansible, meanwhile, is expert at configuring those systems, ensuring everything's set up and ...

Run Multiple Consul Servers on a Single Node

Jul 28, 2025 · 3 min read · Do you know you can run multiple Consul servers on a single node to quickly set up a Consul cluster for testing, eliminating the need for separate VMs? To run a Consul server on a single node, use the following command: ~ consul agent -server \ -no...

Running AI and LLMs Locally with Ollama

Jul 25, 2025 · 2 min read · Ever wanted to mess around with AI right on your own computer! no cloud nonsense or internet required? Ollama's your buddy here, it's a open-source tool that lets you run Large Language Models (LLMs) like Llama, Gemma, or Granite locally. Super handy...

Perform tcpdump in Consul-k8s

Jul 24, 2025 · 1 min read · This guide explains how to use tcpdump in a Kubernetes environment to capture network traffic from a Consul mesh gateway pod using a debug container. Launch a Debug Container Start a debug container for the target pod in the consul namespace. The ...