Jacob Salmela
  • Home
  • Contact me
  • Sponsor
  • What I'm working on
  • Portal
  • YouTube
  • Certs
Subscribe

ansible

A collection of 3 posts
Four Years Later: Symlinks and Dropbox for Backup and Restore
dropbox

Four Years Later: Symlinks and Dropbox for Backup and Restore

Note: This post is about is a homegrown solution to backups/restores I developed four years ago, not the newly-announced Dropbox Backup.  I originally developed this method for four reasons: restoring from backups was never a seamless or pain-free processsettings and preferences I adjusted over time were inevitably lost and
Dec 6, 2020 — 4 min read
How To Create A Custom, Dynamic Inventory Script for Ansible
ansible

How To Create A Custom, Dynamic Inventory Script for Ansible

Writing a dynamic inventory script for Ansible can be useful for more than just getting a list of hosts to run a play against.  It can also function as a standalone command line utility for your infrastructure. The first time I wrote one, I had a difficult time finding information
Jul 27, 2019 — 3 min read
Tame Your Patreon Shipping Problem With Ansible
ansible

Tame Your Patreon Shipping Problem With Ansible

My work on the Pi-hole project led me to a start a Patreon page.  Like many creators, I spent a while determining what rewards users would want.  But unlike most users, I did not have a problem fulfilling orders. Apparently, this is a big problem: project creators spend more time
Jun 9, 2018 — 2 min read
Jacob Salmela © 2022
  • github
  • docker
  • youtube
Powered by Ghost