Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “sysadmin-devops”
Preparation for Installing Windows 10
By Daniel F. Dickinson on July 15, 2021

First, Just a Template
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 15, 2021

But First, Improving the Script
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 8, 2021
Create the Image and Boot Files
By Daniel F. Dickinson on November 16, 2020
Create the Image and Boot Files
By Daniel F. Dickinson on November 13, 2020
Base Install of Windows 10
By Daniel F. Dickinson on July 15, 2021

Adding Basic write_files Support
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 15, 2021

Adding Security Groups
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 8, 2021
Use the Image
By Daniel F. Dickinson on November 16, 2020

A Sufficiently Complete Bare Bones Script
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 8, 2021
First Steps, Post Install
By Daniel F. Dickinson on July 15, 2021
Download and verify installation media
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 30, 2022
Partitioning on the Linux command line
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 30, 2022
Add and use filesystem tools
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 29, 2022
Copy tarball to boot under Gnome
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 29, 2022
Prepare SD card using GNOME Disks
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 29, 2022

Alpine Linux as a Server
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 28, 2022
Configure off-system backups
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 28, 2022
Creating initial boot media
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 28, 2022
Do pre-boot tweaks
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 28, 2022
Guides for setting kernel parameters
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 28, 2022
Hardware-specific tweaks and configuration
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 28, 2022
Howtos
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 28, 2022
Important post-install configuration
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 28, 2022
Kernel and hardware notes
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 28, 2022
Obtain and verify install tarball
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 28, 2022
Prepare your SD card
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 28, 2022
Setup network required for package installation
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 28, 2022
Use Alpine Linux on Raspberry Pi as a server
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 28, 2022
Add etckeeper
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Add etckeeper git remote for pushing on commit
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Add man pages and other on-system docs
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Add nano and use as default editor
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Add packages for pre-mount filesystem check
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Add tmux
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Commit LBU (stores changes)
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Configure SSH for pubkey only
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Create a non-root admin user
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Create semi-data/semi-diskless install
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Edit message of the day (MOTD)
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Enable enhanced shell prompt
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Firstboot troubleshooting
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
For headless systems, add boot entropy
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Recommended tweaks and configuration
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Server install & configure
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Use encrypted LBU
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022
Use modified 'setup-alpine' procedure
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 27, 2022

Real Life SystemD Timers
By Daniel F. Dickinson on March 7, 2022

Docker Network: LAN to Container
By Daniel F. Dickinson on February 21, 2022
No Backscatter Email Alias Relay
By Daniel F. Dickinson on August 9, 2021
A More Windows-Centric Approach
By Daniel F. Dickinson on July 15, 2021
Ubuntu Cloud Images on Hyper-V
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 24, 2020

Terraforming OVH Is Not Paradise
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 5, 2021
Moving a PostgreSQL Server
By Daniel F. Dickinson on May 20, 2021
Resetting Nextcloud
By Daniel F. Dickinson on May 20, 2021
Update in the Clouds
By Daniel F. Dickinson on May 20, 2021
Hosting a Local Nextcloud
By Daniel F. Dickinson on May 20, 2021
Intel NUC(-like) as a Server
By Daniel F. Dickinson on May 18, 2021
Gitea Pi
By Daniel F. Dickinson on May 16, 2021
PiSQL
By Daniel F. Dickinson on May 16, 2021
Using XCA to Create Private SSL Certificates
By Daniel F. Dickinson on May 12, 2021
Common Setup for Windows and Linux Systems
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 24, 2021
Reducing Web Server Spam With Lighttpd
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 3, 2021

How Not to Rebuild a WordPress Site
By Daniel F. Dickinson on March 9, 2021
Setup
By Daniel F. Dickinson on January 29, 2021
Intro to Raspberry Pi OS
By Daniel F. Dickinson on September 20, 2020

Edit-Test-Website CI/CD Lifecycle Demonstration
By Daniel F. Dickinson on August 29, 2020

Intro to Git and GitHub
By Daniel F. Dickinson on August 29, 2020
WordPress 'Site Health'
By Daniel F. Dickinson on January 29, 2021
OVH Setup
By Daniel F. Dickinson on January 29, 2021

The Problem with Thin (Pools & Volumes)
By Daniel F. Dickinson on February 20, 2021
A Note on Maintenance
By Daniel F. Dickinson on January 29, 2021

Converting Emails: Merge & Purge
By Daniel F. Dickinson on January 13, 2021

Backing Up is Hard to Do
By Daniel F. Dickinson on November 29, 2020

Part 4: UEFI Automated ARM for Libvirt/KVM
By Daniel F. Dickinson on November 16, 2020

ARM Libvirt/KVM Virtualization
By Daniel F. Dickinson on November 9, 2020

Part 3: Old School Automated ARM for Libvirt/KVM
By Daniel F. Dickinson on November 13, 2020
Use the Image (and boot files)
By Daniel F. Dickinson on November 13, 2020

Part 2: UEFI Manual ARM for Libvirt/KVM
By Daniel F. Dickinson on November 10, 2020

Part 1: Old School Manual ARM for Libvirt/KVM
By Daniel F. Dickinson on November 9, 2020
Windows in a Libvirt KVM VM
By Daniel F. Dickinson on October 27, 2020
Raspberry Pi OS as a Server
By Daniel F. Dickinson on September 8, 2020
Windows and Linux in One
By Daniel F. Dickinson on August 20, 2020
Tweaks and Author's Recommendations: Windows 10 Pro
By Daniel F. Dickinson on July 15, 2021

ARCHIVED: Infrastructure via Code
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 6, 2021

ARCHIVED: Tokens for OVH v1
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 6, 2021

ARCHIVED: First Steps With The OpenStack SDK
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 6, 2021

ARCHIVED: Adding Trivial Templating
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 11, 2021

ARCHIVED: Continuing OpenStack SDK With Templating
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 15, 2021

ARCHIVED: Completing Bare Bones Openstack SDK
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 7, 2021

ARCHIVED: Completing Openstack SDK With Templating
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 25, 2021

ARCHIVED: Hugo on Netlify With WSL(2)
By Daniel F. Dickinson on November 4, 2021
ARCHIVED: Lightweight Public Git Self Hosting
By Daniel F. Dickinson on December 19, 2020
ARCHIVED: Raspberry Pi as an Ansible Server
By Daniel F. Dickinson on January 30, 2020
ARCHIVED: Configure an OVH VPS With CentOS 7
By Daniel F. Dickinson on October 4, 2019
ARCHIVED: Package Installation and Updates on an Isolated Network
By Daniel F. Dickinson on July 22, 2019
ARCHIVED: CentOS 7 Partial Mirrors and Custom Repositories
By Daniel F. Dickinson on June 22, 2019

ARCHIVED: Linux Network Monitoring
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 2, 2006
ARCHIVED: Yet Another Web Server HOWTO
By Daniel F. Dickinson on October 5, 2019
ARCHIVED: Debian Custom CD
By Daniel F. Dickinson on November 30, 2008
REMOVED: msmtp-scripts
By Daniel F. Dickinson on September 22, 2020