Category Archives: Computers

Disaster Recovery – Wave Three

Posted on February 22, 2026 by Freejack

Overview This is the third wave. The initial article made references to different waves but as I progress, the waves show what the priorities are for getting the environment back up. For example, I spent a lot of time getting … Continue reading →

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Disaster Recovery – Wave Two

Posted on February 13, 2026 by Freejack

Overview This is the second part in a series of posts where I’m restoring my homelab environment. My goal is to automate as much as I can and make notes where it’s not working. This will consist of sections for … Continue reading →

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Disaster Recovery – Wave One

Posted on February 1, 2026 by Freejack

Overview If you saw my previous article on Disaster Recovery, you know what Wave One is. Mainly it’s the steps needed to be able to start running the Ansible Playbooks. This blog post lists all the steps I need to … Continue reading →

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Disaster Recovery

Posted on January 26, 2026 by Freejack

Overview While not really a ‘Disaster’, I am forced to rebuild my servers. Fortunately I have backups plus on the blog, a set of instructions for my Kubernetes and Openshift setups. This article will provide information on getting a DR … Continue reading →

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Setting Up Proxmox

Posted on January 25, 2026 by Freejack

Background Since my VMware experience has ended, and I do want to get more experience with other tools, I’ve copied my important files off of the VMware servers to my KVM host (the R710). Once I verified I had everything, … Continue reading →

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Cygwin, KVM, and X Window

Posted on November 3, 2025 by Freejack

With the conversion of systems from VMware over to KVM, and of course just managing the KVM servers, I need to document the process for accessing the servers and viewing consoles. I’ve been using cygwin for many years. I’ve even … Continue reading →

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VMware to KVM

Posted on November 2, 2025 by Freejack

I’ve been a member of VMUG and user of VMware on my Dell R710 and then Dell R720XDs for almost 10 years now. It’s been interesting and valuable in helping me understand VMware. A couple of jobs back, I was … Continue reading →

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AWX And Requirements

Posted on October 3, 2024 by Freejack

Overview This article provides information and instructions in the use of the requirements.y[a]ml and requirements.txt file when running playbooks from AWX or Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). Galaxy Collections and Roles When running ansible on the command line interface (CLI), you … Continue reading →

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Ansible Automation Platform Workflows

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Freejack

Overview AWX Workflows let you chain tasks together and act on the outcome. This article provides instructions in how to create an AWX Workflow. Templates An AWX Workflow is a series of playbooks that are created in Templates to run … Continue reading →

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Ansible Web Executable Logging In

Posted on May 23, 2024 by Freejack

Overview This article will describe the methodology used to manage user and team access in Ansible Web Executable (AWX). Terminology Ansible Web Executable (AWX) is the upstream open source software that is used in Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). Prior versions … Continue reading →

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