Planning to use this blog as a way to share documentation of cool stuff I do outside of work.

For the most part, I envision this as a cleaned up version of my personal Evernote documentation.

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On most platforms with pip, updating Ansible is as simple as:

$ pip install -U ansible

However, on babun, I received the following error:

[...]
/usr/include/sys/time.h:104:34: error: unknown type name ‘u_int’
[...]
    error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

        ----------------------------------------
          Rolling back uninstall of pycrypto
          Command "/usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-eY8zz7/pycrypto/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-iUMqxd-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-eY8zz7/pycrypto/

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For managing my AWS resources, I prefer to stick to the AWS CLI. However, until recently, I have relied on the AWS web console to find AMIs.

Today, I finally decided to dive into JMESPath to come up with my own filters for describe-images. Since I typically stick with RHEL and Ubuntu distros, I created an alias for each.

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After creating a new VPS Ubuntu instance, one of the first things I do is lock down root access and create an administrator account.

I was using Fabric to push out these modifications. Recently, however, I decided to switch to Ansible instead.

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Thanks to the pact package manager, installing ansible on babun was significantly easier than on cygwin. The whole process consisted of only three simple steps.

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I decided to switch my Asus RT-AC68U’s firmware from DD-WRT to Asuswrt-Merlin. Unfortunately, Asuswrt-Merlin’s web GUI doesn’t allow the configuration of non-authenticated (i.e., guests or public) access to a Samba share.

Since I have some experience with Samba, I decided to write a quick bash script to modify the shares configuration.

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To install github-pages in babun, I first needed to install ruby. This proved more difficult that I initially thought.

My first attempt of pact install ruby lead to a non-responsive ruby and gem:

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