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HackADay: Let's make a Nukestation

Every time I replace an old hard disk by a newer or bigger one I think that I'll wipe it later. Now I have a big amount of hard disks to wipe. Since wiping takes ages, I don't want to use my personal computer for that. I would prefer a small device with low energy consumption just for wiping. That's why I am going to build a "Nukestation". Basically it's just a Raspberry Pi with nwipe on it and a udev-rule for automatically wipe attached hard disks. But some extras would be nice...

Managing MaraDNS with Ansible

I wrote a role for managing MaraDNS with Ansible.

Requirements

Ansible 2.1+ (might ork with prior versions too)
Debian-based Linux-distribution

Installation

ansible-galaxy install whotwagner.maradns

Testing ansible-roles automatically on every git-push

Ansible is a powerful configuration management tool. For developing and distributing ansible-roles we use Gitlab at Toscom. In this article I'll describe how to automatically test ansible-roles for different Linux-Distributions in Docker-Container using Gitlab-Runner whenever someone pushes changes into our Gitlab-Repository.

facts2dw

facts2dw.rb is a simple script which converts ansible(tested with 1.9.2) facts into dokuwiki-format and uploads it via xmlrpc-interface into dokuwiki This script uses http-basic-authentication and ssl to login into dokuwiki. Ansible caches all the facts in <ANSIBLE-DIR>/facts so it is quite easy to import all facts into dokuwiki. With a few modifications it would be possible to use this script with puppetdb too.

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