Linux

The Google Cloud Shell is fantastic power tool. Unfortunately for me it comes without Ansible preinstalled. Google Cloud Shell is basically Debian, so Ansible can be easily added using apt-get command. However it has drawback of any changes to underlying VM being wiped-up frequently as underlying machine is ephemeral one. Installation There is a better way, though. Use pip. python3 -m pip install --user ansible Collecting ansible Downloading ansible-6.6.0-py3-none-any.whl (42.3 MB) |████████████████████████████████| 42....

In this post, I will cover my learnings from installing Arch Linux on OVH dedicated server. I’ve also shared what I learnt on Arch Linux on a VPS. Installation procedure Prerequisites: Obviously a dedicated server from Kimsufi (any OVH dedicated server should be fine). You also must have public SSH key to SSH to the server after installation is completed. Steps below covers installation of “Cloud Ready” images, that are available here....

In this blog entry, I will cover how badly I over-engineered home network. Site VLANs So for each “site” (house/flat/car/boat/portable router), I keep constant VLAN schema. VLANs are always implemented on edge router and switches. VLAN Description Interface Remarks and use-case 1 Default LAN eth1 This is always untagged on all Ethernet LAN ports 2 Vendor Reserved My Netgear Switch reserves those 3 Vendor Reserved My Netgear Switch reserves those 4 IPv4 Only (DMZ) eth1....

Substandard service So it is mid-2022 and my broadband is: PPPoE No IPv6 MTU at 1492 locked down router based on OpenWRT that provider thinks is awesome no static IP Time to fix as many things as can be fixed. Prerequisites There are two: Call ISP and get your PPPoE username and password. Quite often you need make few calls/online chats. Bin the provided “router” and connect something decent to ONT....

Switching my shell to zsh First, zsh usually does not come pre-installed. sudo pacman -S zsh chsh -l chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh Then after re-logging, I go with “do nothing”: This is the Z Shell configuration function for new users, zsh-newuser-install. You are seeing this message because you have no zsh startup files (the files .zshenv, .zprofile, .zshrc, .zlogin in the directory ~). This function can help you with a few settings that should make your use of the shell easier....