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The Ansible Tour, Part 1: One Repository, Three Servers – How the Code Is Organised and What Happens During a Run

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The Ansible Tour, Part 1: One Repository, Three Servers – How the Code Is Organised and What Happens During a Run

raphael 14. October 2026

Part 1 of a tour through my Ansible code: how one repository and 34 roles run a...

A Mail for Every SSH Login: A Two-Minute Tripwire with wtmp and systemd

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A Mail for Every SSH Login: A Two-Minute Tripwire with wtmp and systemd

raphael 14. October 2026

A mail for every interactive SSH login within two minutes: a systemd timer reading wtmp, quiet for...

Ten Points, One Branch: Taking My Ansible Code From “It Works” to “It Is Clean”

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Ten Points, One Branch: Taking My Ansible Code From “It Works” to “It Is Clean”

raphael 12. October 2026

Ten improvements to my Ansible code, tested without touching production: kubernetes.core, a real dry run, lint and...

Two Things My SSDs Were Missing: TRIM After BitLocker, and a Write Cache My HPE Server Quietly Switched Off

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Two Things My SSDs Were Missing: TRIM After BitLocker, and a Write Cache My HPE Server Quietly Switched Off

raphael 6. October 2026

HP3, my HPE MicroServer Gen10 Plus v2, is back on Debian 13 with OpenZFS. Why it left...

Two Minutes Forty-Five: My First Nextcloud App Update via Ansible (and the Guard Rail I Added Just Before)

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Two Minutes Forty-Five: My First Nextcloud App Update via Ansible (and the Guard Rail I Added Just Before)

raphael 30. September 2026

Confession time: the production Nextcloud from the migration battle log has been running on K3s for a...

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