Just another Linux geek – Fortiter Et Recte

3 April, 20225 April, 2022Ansible, Fedora, FOSS

Using a dynamic libvirt inventory with Ansible

The Ansible community libvirt collection provides a method to interact with QEMU and LXC (if that interests you, please come and join us!). Along with support for libvirt tasks such […]

21 March, 202221 March, 2022Fedora, FOSS, OpenStack

Joining a bridged IRC network on Element (Matrix)

Matrix is a great modern, distributed and secure open source chat platform (I connect through Element), but sometimes you need to connect to IRC networks. Fortunately, for some common networks […]

13 January, 202218 January, 2022Fedora, FOSS, OpenStack

Swift object storage clusters with Ansible

OpenStack Swift is a most brilliant object store and I have built a few clusters over the last couple of years using SwiftStack’s product, which is really excellent. However, I […]

27 December, 20215 March, 2022Ansible, Fedora, FOSS

Setting up an Ansible dev environment

I do a lot of dev work using my Ansible virtual infrastructure role to spin up various KVM guests across multiple hosts using YAML based inventories. I’ve just put my […]

2 November, 20215 March, 2022Fedora, FOSS

Automatically enable and disable WiFi based on Ethernet connection with NetworkManager

I use a laptop as my daily driver and am on WiFi most of the time. However, I also have a dock which has Ethernet. Thanks to NetworkManager dispatcher scripts, […]

2 October, 20215 March, 2022Fedora, Tech

Flashing OpenWRT onto Ubiquiti UniFi AP AC

Recently OpenWRT released version 20.02 and it’s great! The Wiki instructions for flashing Ubiquiti AP AC devices (including Pro, Lite and LR versions) has a number of options. One uses […]

18 July, 202118 July, 2021Fedora, FOSS

How to create VLAN trunks and access ports for VMs on Linux bridges using NetworkManager (and have them talk)

TL;DR instead of creating a VLAN on a physical interface (like bond0.123), then turning that into a bridge for a VM, create a tagged interface on the main bridge (e.g. […]

23 May, 202123 May, 2021Fedora

Auto-update Pi-hole with systemd timer

I have two Pi-hole servers at home running Fedora with DNS over TLS, both of which auto update on different days (to avoid having both down if something goes wrong). […]

20 February, 202120 February, 2021Fedora, FOSS

Rootless podman containers under system accounts, managed and enabled at boot with systemd

While you can run containers as root on the host, or run rootless containers as your regular user (either as uid 0 or any another), sometimes it’s nice to create […]

31 January, 202131 January, 2021Fedora, FOSS

Podman volumes and SELinux

In my previous post on volumes with podman, I touched on SELinux but I think it’s worthy of its own post to work through some details. If your host has […]