Ansible Server Patching utilizing Ansible Vault

This quick guide shows how to use an Ansible playbook to patch a bunch of servers. This approach still is not fully automated, as it needs user input for the execution and provision of secrets from ansible-vault. Prerequisites Ansible installed: Make sure Ansible is installed on the machine that will run the playbook. If you are on MacOS like me, just use brew install ansible. Vault setup: Install and configure Ansible Vault for handling sensitive data....

March 7, 2025 · 427 words · jop

Routing Traffic Through a VPN Container

My IP was blocked from Growatt’s servers recently, because I started fetching my own data from them. This didn’t make sense to me, but anyways. I can’t change my public IP and it’s only rotated every once in a while. This meant I had to be creative. In this post, we’ll walk through setting up a Proxmox Linux container (CT) to run WireGuard with a Mullvad configuration and then configuring an EdgeRouter X to force specific devices’ traffic through that VPN container....

March 7, 2025 · 656 words · jop