When managing configuration for various services, you'll (hopefully) end up having to install TLS certificates at some point. Instead of having to come up with the same logic in various …

Whilst setting up consul on SmartOS I noticed the packages distributed through pkgsrc were lagging behind a bit and the upstream "distribution" contains only the consul binary.

Running consul …

As mentioned in an earlier post I'd been working on two new Ansible modules; for imgadm(1M) and vmadm(1M). So here I want to demonstrate these new modules which …

None of the machines I currently run SmartOS on are big enough to run SDC/Triton, so I looked at Rundeck for creating zone definitions. and provisioning new zones …

After losing some hair over the question how does Ansible do hiera-style %{} variable interpolation? I figured I'd jot down my findings. If nothing else, it'll serve as a handy …