July 26, 2021

Setting up mysql server via ansible for MailSteward Pro

I’ve been keeping an email archive in an SQL database for years, and using MailSteward Pro to make easy work of adding to the archive. I recently had to re-setup my servers, and created an ansible role to make setup of mysql easier. MailSteward wants some non-standard sql password settings, and by default SQL connections are allowed only from localhost, so that needs to be changed. ansible_role_mailsteward_mysql Requirements Tested on Ubuntu 20.

May 4, 2021

Raspberry Pi to NVIDIA DGX

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together – Vincent van Gogh I recently finished the networking deployment for a £35m greenfield DC in the UK. One of the enjoyable parts of this DC build was starting the entire deployment and automation stack from a Raspberry Pi: Nice example of going from one extreme in ARM CPU computing to the other.

October 27, 2020

Creating a Fortinet VM for Libvirt/vagrant

I needed to replicate a production Fortinet firewall environment to do some testing. I could have done this in GNS3/EVE-NG or some other virtual enviornment, but I find that Vagrant/Libvirt gives me the most usability when trying to reuse a setup over time, such as for automated testing. So with that goal in mind, I needed to create a vagrant box of Fortinet’s FortiVM firewall, but specifically for use with libvirt.