My Ansible playbook for SSH hardening fails on a newly provisioned Ubuntu 26.04 LTS VPS because that release ships sudo-rs, whose password prompt differs from the classic sudo prompt that Ansible matches against, causing a privilege-escalation timeout. A fix has landed upstream in Ansible but hasn’t reached my version yet, so I fall back to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, mentioning a passwordless SSH Ansible user as an alternative...
My weekend Ansible apt upgrade run failed on one Ubuntu host with a BADSIG GPG signature error on the Ubuntu jammy-updates repository. I trace the problem to my Apt Cacher NG cache and fix it by deleting the cached Ubuntu repository data, forcing fresh index files to be downloaded. I leave the underlying cause unresolved, though it appears to affect only that one host...
I deploy a small Node.js and Express service from my MacBook to an Ubuntu VPS, covering the choice between a native install and a Docker container, installing Node and npm via apt (including why the Ubuntu repository version is quite old), and copying project files to the server with scp rather than setting up git-based CI/CD for such a tiny project. I test with Insomnia instead of Postman, which I avoid because of its data collection...
A step-by-step walkthrough of creating my first virtual machine in Proxmox 7.3, using Ubuntu Server as the example guest OS. I cover uploading an ISO to local storage, working through the Create VM wizard’s choices for VM ID, name, disk size, CPU cores, and memory, then starting the VM and installing the operating system via the console...
