Sysadmining. All day. Every day.

I've decided to migrate this blog to Pelican. I've been playing around with it over the week-end, and it turns out to be way easier to manage than Jekyll. Themes are much easier to install and configure, so it ends up looking better as well!

Since I'm basically recreating this blog from scratch, I've decided to delete the old git repo that was hosting it and to create a new one.

Setting up your own private git repo is pretty easy to achieve and is already well-documented on the Git website. …more

I've recently bought a HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 to play around with LXC and try new stuff.

From the 4 Debian machines I had to keep up-to-date, I now have 7, so it became quite time-consumming to manually SSH to each of them whenever an update became available.

I ended up looking at Ansible to speed up the process and, within an hour, I had a working playbook that updates the debian packages, pip packages and git repos installed on all of my servers with a single command.

I figured I'd share the playbook I use to update the Debian packages! …more