2 posts tagged with "linux"

Over the past year or so, I have slowly moved more of my homelab to a more Infraastructure-As-Code/DevOps model. I'm trying to thing of my computers more as cattle than as pets. This means that I no longer care about the configuration of a single computer. Instead I try to think of a computer as hardware running jobs.

I recently had to rebuild a Raspberry PI 4, and the process was much less painful than before. Using Fedora's ARM Image Writer, I prepared the SSD with Fedora 41.

From there it was run an ansible playbook that configured the system, installed the required software for the various jobs, then finally restore each job's configuration.

A process which I used to dread, took under 2 hours, start to finish, and that included the time to download the 1.1GB Fedora Server raw image file.

After ignoring my blog the better part of a year, one of my goals for 2025 is to write more. My other goals:

• Read at least 12 novels. My reading has dropped way off over the last couple of years, and I want to change that. I will be tracking a reading list once I have completed re-reading my first novel, "Old Man's War". Once that is done, I will re-read "The Hobbit", followed by "The Ghost Brigades".
• Document some more of my homelab environment. I will be re-visting my Kea DHCP server build, my certificate management processes, and upgrading my LAN this year.
• Track more of the New Music I am listening to I already use last.fm, and spotify so this should be easier.
• Achieve my 4th degree black belt in ITF Taekwon-Do. My plan is to test in June.
• Get my RHCSA and RHCE certifications again. I am almost ready to write my RHCSA for RHEL9.