Ubuntu Server comes with unattended installation that can partition your disk, but the partitioning does not play well when your drive has prior partitions you want to keep. We explore Ubuntu's installer and tweak it to inject dynamic behavior through the early-commands. We develop in-house installation scripts inside virtual machines and run the installer end-to-end completely unattended.
Configuring your home network might be particularly tricky when the IPv6 prefix changes over time. This article provides an end-to-end solution, from the home server stack to the router update scripts. A script for updating your DNS and firewall directly from your router is provided.
GPG subkeys, trust contexts and privacy: the article deals with the concept of GPG subkeys and explains why it is a good practice, making the parallel with other password practices used today for websites. It details how to extract and manipulate subkeys for Thunderbird's GPG configuration.
Java-specs for Atlassian Bamboo CI/CD is a powerful tool for managing build and deployment pipelines. The use of Java brings composability and reusability to the developments, and let you organize your CI/CD at a larger scale. I describe in this short article how I share common Java classes between several of my Java-specs.
How do you manage several SSH identities when accesses are conflicting? I show various configurations along with their advantages/flaws, giving you precise control over how SSH uses your many identities.
A very simple example on how to transfer large files to Windows hosts with Ansible
