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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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#debian Articles

The Ansible Guy Finally Automates His Own Patching: FreeBSD, Jails, Proxmox and RHEL

I write Ansible for a living, and I still patched most of my own servers by hand every week. This is how that ended: a Git-based inventory, defensive patch playbooks for FreeBSD (freebsd-update and pkgbase), Bastille thin jails, classic thick jails via my jailexec connection plugin, a Proxmox cluster and RHEL. Ansible Automation Platform runs it for me, but nothing here requires it. Plus the mistakes, including the reboot policy I should have checked before the first real run.