I don't always subscribe to someone's Substack, but when I do, it's Jennifer Pahlka.

Last August I bought 6 small work platforms/mast lifts at an equipment auction and sold them in FB Marketplace for an extra $1000 each after expenses. Cleaned them up a bit, but that was it! I’m bidding on 5 more this week, should be an easy $5k arbitrage.

Just configured my first cloud-unit file and put it on a partitioned USB with the Ubuntu Server iso. It worked! Thanks for the heads up.

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cloud-init looks great, I'll try it for new bare metal installs. How do you get it to work in Docker containers?

You don't use cloudinit with Docker containers. You'd use cloudinit to set up the Docker/K8s host on EC2 or similar IaaS.

Software for Docker containers is built like this: https://12factor.net/

Thanks! I haven't looked at Ansible before

Happy to share! I'll save the sales pitch, but the module/role library is truly a good source of inspiration despite the language.

The code itself isn't that important - declarative YAML, but best practices/patterns can be an art. I don't actually have much published that wouldn't tie my identities together :P

Avoid using Ansible to wrap 'shell' commands with modules of the same name... outside of information gathering, stick with the modules specific to the work. Also avoid using when - may often prefer 'handlers' :)

One of the features of asymmetric key cryptography is that you can only prove that you're the same person (private key).

And thinking "why doesn't everybody want to do this?"

Man this brings me back. I did a year at McMurdo in 2004. We got hit with such a bad storm that conex boxes were tossed all over the yards. Snow drifts covered up some doors, but... they opened inward ;)

I sold my last side gig when it got too busy. Land clearing and forestry with heavy equipment- the last year we grossed 250k and 50% profit. Sold the company for 1x annual profit plus assets. Now I mine Bitcoin. Have iterated through a lot of the challenges mid-size miners face. I’m going to build an online course for others who want to build mining operations at my scale.