How to detect if Ansible is run with --limit

… is Ansible playbook being run against subset of hosts?

Preamble

I have a role which configure known_hosts file on all hosts. Due to the complication of that…

debian packaging of angular application

Contained evils is better than distributed

The last piece of the puzzle in our in-house application is a front-end. You know, the usual angular, bootstrap, some other js-magic. It was build in a very typical…

dh-sysuser

Yesterday I’ve discovered a dh-sysuser package which provides dh_sysuser helper to manage system users in Debian packages . I feel it is a big improvement over old ‘do it yourself with bash’ style. Unfortunately, I didn’t find any information about usage. Fortunately, in one bug report I noticed a mentioning…

lxc-start: testrun: start.c: lxc_spawn: 1555 Failed initializing cgroup support

Bizarre snippets of operators live

How to fix unpriveleged containers for lxc

debian packages and user management

<s>Sad</s> Happy discovery of the day

Today I learned a tragic fact: Debian packages create system users for services by means of postinst scripts written in Bash.