My last update on this project was just over six years ago. Everything worked, and I moved on. The software industry didn’t stand still, and neither did I. I work in operations at an AI startup. I use tools like Claude Code daily to get my work done. I’
If you’re using any Bitnami images you need to be aware of the changes Bitnami is making to their community offering (and no, I’m not talking about the stunt they pulled last year to block so called unsecure images in their Helm charts coupled with the pull rate changes). On August 28th, 2025...
It’s been several years since I last posted anything though it’s not because I haven’t been busy. My goal is to start writing up posts regularly but before I do, I feel I need to recap the last three and a half years. I would recommend that everyone occasionally take time to document their...
It seems no one has written a blog post on creating dynamic inventory scripts for Ansible in a while. I feel this topic could use an update as some of the information I found was incomplete or out of date. My goal is was convert Terraforms’s tfstate data from DigitalOcean to a usable inventory...
I am a fan of DigitalOcean. What they lack in breath of services they more than make up for with the ease of use, documentation, and tutorials. Last year, I overhauled this website to be driven by Ansible. This year, I want to take this automation to the next level. There are capability gaps...
Today, I broke this website while testing some minor changes to the deployment scripts. I tried to figure out what went wrong (I messed up something with Apache while trying to renew the SSL cert). I couldn’t get it sorted out so I blew up the droplet (VM, EC2 instance, whatever) and re-executed...
I’ve had my XPS 15 for three full days now. Have I formed an opinion on it? What are the pros and cons of this machine? Is it worth the money? Before I answer those, I should circle back around and provide some more details on my use case for the XPS 15. Use Case … →
I finally pulled the trigger and purchased a Dell XPS 15 to replace my 2016 MBP. Why not another Mac? I have nothing against Apple notebooks. In fact, my work issued MBP16 is absolutely fantastic. What drove me back to Windows were a few things: The keyboard and screen hinge issues I’ve had with...
Todays changes are around reducing excess memory consumption by php-fpm with the hopes of preventing swapping and low memory alerts. https://github.com/seaburr/WordPressOnDigitalOcean/commit/b37a43e0616aef7ba390b6fb9686be2e9d71df58
This project hasn’t been touched in a few months so last night I embarked to give it a spin. It failed. Miserably. So I went bug-hunting and got it working again. Resolved Issues centos-base Removed packages no longer available that were causing role to fail. Added package Glances to replace...
We have a lot of build processes that utilize Terraform to perform destroy and apply command. This results in a ton of terraform inits that download the same provider plugins over and over again. You can recover this download time and reduce the risk of Hashicorp giving you the banhammer (which...
I ran into an issue the other day with Ansible while provisoning a Windows machine. After installing InstallShield 2015 SAB, Ansible copies a small license file configuration file into the installation directory. That’s the configuration. Should be easy right? Not in this case. I was confounded...