https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin

use this instead of tailscale or other corporate options. tailscale is going for IPO, their service cannot survive investor greed.

just get a cheap n100 box, don’t overspend

it would be amazing if geerlingguy was the one to make youtube go mask off

ansible has a learning curve but will save you a lot of time in long run over bash.

write playbooks rhat target groups of similar hosts instead of a playbook for each distinct host, target specific hosts with -l flag of ansible-playbook.

look into molecule for testing sooner than later. helps you be more confident your plays will work as expected vs running trial and error on a host and getting it into a bad state. i run on bare metal so more important for my workflow not to wipe a folder with a typo, etc.