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Kyle Pericak

"It works in my environment"

@Ralph Secure My Laptop

@Ralph Secure My Laptop

Created: 2026-03-22

I went on vacation while Claude had bonus tokens. Made my first Ralph-like loop to improve laptop security IaC.

Installing Node.js with Ansible

Installing Node.js with Ansible

Created: 2019-12-13, Modified: 2019-12-13

How to install a current Node.js version on Ubuntu with Ansible using the nodesource apt repository. Covers why NVM fails in Ansible and includes complete playbook tasks for the apt key, repo, nodejs, and npm packages.

Operating OpenStack from Ansible

Operating OpenStack from Ansible

Created: 2019-12-03, Modified: 2019-12-03

Automate OpenStack workloads with Ansible os_ modules. Covers auth, projects, users, quotas, networks, volumes, and launching VMs on an existing cloud.

Operations Reference Page

Operations Reference Page

Created: 2019-09-11, Modified: 2020-11-09

Grab-bag of Linux ops recipes. tcpdump, vim find and replace, passwordless sudo, loopback volumes, journalctl, bash exit traps, MTU tests, and more.

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