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Creating a User in Ansible
Configuration ManagementWe'll cover how to make users in Linux, and how that translates into making users with Ansible.
How Ansible Vault Works
Configuration ManagementSee how to use Ansible Vault to encrypt secrets in your YAML variable files.
An Ansible2 Tutorial
Configuration ManagementUpdated for Ansible2! Ansible is one of the simplest server provisioning and configuration management tools. This is a guide to getting started with Ansible.
LetsEncrypt with HAProxy
ProxiesWe cover using LetsEncrypt to create SSL certificates with a HAProxy load balancer. Since we're using LetsEncrypt on a load balancer (HAProxy) which cannot serve the authorization HTTP requests by itself, we have some unique issues to get around. Let's see how!
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