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Initial Server Setup Using Ansible

Why So, I’ve been on a ‘how can I make my life easier’ kick and started looking into different system management software. Ansible bubbled up to the top because it’s agent-less. This makes a lot of sense for the types of things I’m doing. It might make things slower in a huge setup/infrastructure since there’s some latency doing things through SSH. Goal Initial Goal - Automate the entire server baseline setup via Ansible.

Making Ubuntu 22.04 Faster

Why I setup my server to boot on power. So I want to boot and run as quickly as possible to minimize downtime due to reboots or power-outages. It happens more than I’d like. Goal Document performance settings for Ubuntu 22.04 Settings Not a performance setting, but ups the map count limit to allow for Docker to be able to run ELK. Set vm.max_map_count to no less than 262144 (one time configuration) # Run once, loses setting after reboot.

Outlook e-mail Raw Queries

Guide on outlook e-mail raw queries on a mac, probably works on other versions.

Setup NFS Mount to Synology NAS

Configure Synology for NFS and setup autofs to Automount the NFS share.

Running wget in background with continue

Try to avoid lost downloads again with wget.