I run a small homelab in a Tailscale network configured with Ansible. There are several methods I could use to manage application secrets in this environment, but I’ve chosen to use HashiCorp Vault as Vault Community is frequently what I would turn to in a professional environment, so it will …

AWS has released v2 of its instance metadata service, largely in response to the 2019 Capital One breach. I’ve seen a handful of articles announcing this new feature, how to upgrade to it, and how it is a response to the Capital One breach, but I haven’t read an article that explicitly …

In part 3 of this series, we will look at how we can test Ansible Collections using the official Ansible test tool, Molecule. In part 1, we created a custom lookup plugin to interact with the GitHub Releases API. In part 2, we refactored this plugin into an Ansible Collection and used GitHub Actions …