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Context Every time a new client was onboarded, their web application had to be deployed and exposed to the internet. As part of the deployment, the infrastructure required several configuration steps across different services before the applicatio...

Most Windows patching guides show you a basic winupdates task and call it done. That works fine in a lab. But when you're managing 30 production servers, you need something that tells you what's going to happen before it happens, handles double rebo...

Most of us start our automation journey with 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴—and that's exactly how it should be. It's simple, powerful, and a great way to automate repetitive tasks. But as your infrastructure grows, you'll eventually hit its limits. 🚨 Imagine th...

!Watch the videohttps://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEOIDHERE/0.jpghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlUzYm6W-bI Coolify's one-line install script is great — until it isn't. Right now it officially supports Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04 LTS. If you're runni...

title: I automated my homelab so hard it started naming servers after Tarantino characters published: true description: What started as avoiding the Proxmox UI turned into OpenTofu, Ansible, dynamic inventory, and a bunch of bugs I didn't expect. ta...

Ansible Playbooks — Automate VPS Hardening, User Creation & Removal Link to youtube Video on these playbookshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl8IW8F1mxA Introduction In this post I'm sharing 3 Ansible playbooks I use to manage my VPS servers. I wo...

Introduction What is Ansible? Ansible is an automation language that can describe any IT environment, whether home-lab or large-scale infrastructure. It is easy to learn, beautiful code that reads like clear documentation. There are many repetitiv...

The Story Begins One common pattern we’ve observed at Nine is that many of our customers run web applications — think content management systems, web shops, dashboards, or custom APIs. These apps often rely on a tried-and-true combination of infrast...

Ansible is a powerful automation tool that simplifies IT tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, and task automation. One of its essential features is the ability to run ad hoc commands. In this blog post, we'll delve into Ans...

What is Ansible? In the fast-paced world of software development, automation and efficient workflows are key to success. Enter Ansible, an open-source tool that has transformed the way we approach automation, configuration management, continuous de...

Based on the project Apache Kafka, streams for Apache Kafka is a powerful, innovative distributed event streaming platform. Using a fully distributed architecture, a streams for Apache Kafka cluster requires you to setup and deploy numerous services,...