DevOps & System Admin. Ansible Communication with AWS EC2 Instances on a VPC Using SSH options like ProxyCommand, Ansible can readily work with privately addressed EC2 instances on a AWS VPC subnet.
Developer Tools Configuring rc Flags on OpenBSD via Ansible When I used the Ansible service module to enable a daemon, all entries in rc.conf.local related to that service were removed, including the flags entry.
Developer Tools Configuring a Laptop with Ansible, Part Two An example of how I use Ansible config management to save and reproduce the environment on my laptop.
Developer Tools Configuring a Laptop with Ansible, Part One How to use the Ansible configuration management systems to easily reproduce a heavily customized environment on other laptops down the line.
Extracurricular Activities Configuring a Git-Controlled Home Directory with Ansible I wanted to use Ansible to manage my main development environment at home, with a home directory set up in git.
