CPCédric Poissonincedric-poisson.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 7 min readFrom Zero to a Working Active Directory Forest — Automating Everything with OpenTofu and AnsibleA few weeks ago I set myself a challenge: build a fully working Active Directory lab on Azure — forest, domain controller, organizational units, group policies, a domain-joined client — without touchi00
GFGuilherme Ferreiraingferreir.hashnode.dev·Aug 21 · 12 min readAnsible Execution Environments in Practice: Building Reproducible EEsYou write a playbook that works perfectly on your laptop. You commit it, push it to your CI pipeline, and it fails. After some investigation, you find that the CI environment runs a different version 00
MRMo Rizalinmorizal.hashnode.dev·Aug 11 · 20 min readZero-Touch Provisioning With Ansible: From 0 To Secure Production Ready ServerProvisioning a new server is often more complicated than simply installing a few packages. A fresh Ubuntu server may start with almost nothing configured. An engineer still needs to create users, conf00
WTWade Thomasinblog.northernrangedigital.com·Aug 6 · 7 min readDirectus + Coolify: Should You Decouple Postgres & Redis?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cMrbfGZqb8 This is Part 2 of the Directus + Coolify series. If you're new here, start with "Secure Your VPS Before Hackers Do" and the first Directus + Coolify post 00
WTWade Thomasinblog.northernrangedigital.com·Jul 23 · 5 min readCoolify: The Complete Manual Setup Guide (For When the Auto-Install Script Won't Cut It) Coolify's one-line install script is great — until it isn't. Right now it officially supports Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04 LTS. If you're running anything newer (Ubuntu's already on 26.04 LTS), the 00
WTWade Thomasinblog.northernrangedigital.com·Jul 14 · 5 min readThe Ansible Playbook that will Harden Your VPShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl8IW8F1mxA Introduction In this post I'm sharing 3 Ansible playbooks I use to manage my VPS servers. I won't go into great detail on tasks here — if you're new to Ans00
TCThankGod Chibugwum Oboboinactocodes.hashnode.dev·Jul 11 · 10 min readDRY Infrastructure: How to Architect Modular Ansible Playbooks for Next.jsInfrastructure code suffers from the same antipatterns as application code, duplication, tight coupling, undocumented assumptions, and a growing resistance to change. A playbook written for one enviro00
WTWade Thomasinblog.northernrangedigital.com·Jul 10 · 5 min readAnsible Installation and Configuration on Ubuntu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U8ID8j_gLg Introduction What is Ansible? Ansible is an automation language that can describe any IT environment, whether homelab or large-scale infrastructure. It is 00
SHSohag Hasaninnotes.sohag.pro·Jul 9 · 8 min readThe Server Lived in My Head. This Week I Wrote It Down.My ledger has been live at go.sohag.pro for a few weeks now. Real HTTPS, real Postgres, real deploys on every push to main. And there is a thing I have been not thinking about, the way you do not thin00
APabhishek pareekinabhishekpareek.dev·Jul 3 · 6 min readSurviving A Complete ETCD Outage, Part 1: Snapshots, And Getting Them Back When the Cluster Is GoneETCD is the single source of truth for a Kubernetes cluster. Every Node, Pod, Secret, ConfigMap, CRD, and RBAC rule lives there. Lose etcd on all control plane nodes and you have lost the cluster - th00
