Articles by Brian King (inflatador)

  1. Managing Incus resources with Terraform

    Incus, you say?

    According to its purveyors, Incus is "next-generation system container, application container, and virtual machine manager." It is a fork of LXD which retains a more open-source friendly license.

    Although Incus/LXD are typically associated with Linux containers, I was more interested in testing its virtual machine capabilities …

  2. Forming an OpenSearch 2 cluster with transport security enabled (mTLS) and a custom certificate authority, Part 1 of 2

    Why?

    Although I've supported Elasticsearch/OpenSearch for a number of years in my professional life, I've never had the opportunity to use the security plugins.

    All that changed rather abruptly when we decided to run OpenSearch on Kubernetes using the OpenSearch Kubernetes Operator. Suddenly, the security plugins are required.

    Rather …

  3. Easily view ansible-vault secrets with yq

    Easily view Ansible-vault secrets with yq

    As you probably know, ansible-vault is a good way to keep your secrets...secret.

    There's at least two ways to handle vault secrets in your ansible roles: - Put them in a separate file, such as 'secrets.yml'. This makes it easy to encrypt/decrypt …

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