Welcome to Larvitz Blog! I’m Christian, a Senior Consultant by day and FreeBSD enthusiast by night, with over 20 years in enterprise IT. Here I write about FreeBSD jails, PF firewalling, self-hosting, Linux system administration, and anything that’s cleanly engineered. Most articles are hands-on guides born from running my own infrastructure, from dual-stack networking and Ansible automation to hosting a Mastodon instance on FreeBSD.

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#archlinux Articles

Sat 12 September 2026
Linux

Ansible Automation Platform, Powered by Arch Linux. BTW.

I built an Arch Linux execution environment, taught pacman to answer to microdnf, and let Ansible Automation Platform use it to patch RHEL systems. The job succeeded. This is evidence, not a recommendation.