Four tools, four architectures, four communities pulling in different directions. If you’re choosing a configuration management tool right…
Managing a handful of Proxmox VMs through the web UI is fine. Managing dozens across a cluster, spinning…
Sooner or later, every Ansible project hits the same wall: database passwords sitting in plain YAML, API keys…
Managing a handful of servers by hand is fine. Managing fifty, or five hundred, with SSH and bash…
Most infrastructure teams eventually land on the same realization: Terraform is great at creating servers, but terrible at…
Playbooks get unwieldy fast. What starts as a clean 30-line YAML file turns into a 400-line monster with…
Ansible commands blur together after a while. You know the module exists, you just can’t remember the exact…
Managing two servers by hand is tedious. Managing twenty is a full-time job. Ansible playbooks turn that manual…
Cropping removes a watermark by cutting part of the frame, but this move only works if the logo…
File-level backups are useless for databases. If you tar a running PostgreSQL data directory, you get a corrupted…
A well-written bash script covers 90% of Linux backup needs without installing anything. tar, gzip, and a systemd…
Keeping files synchronized across multiple servers is one of those tasks that sounds simple until you need it…
