I have a basic firewall, but did not use App Armor, SELinux, or kernel blacklists. I definitely shut down port 22 just for now. It’s just a laptop daily driver. Should I do more?
Also, I’m now addicted to Arch. I’m using Hyprland with it. This means I’ve got two bleeding edge wares and that gets rough sometimes when things break. I want Arch on my desktop gaming rig though. I tired other distros but I just love Arch. Has anyone tried using Ansible to manage multiple installations? I really can’t maintain two so I was wondering if Ansible would make it easier, especially for updating.
Ansible is a little bit overkill for 2 systems, but it’s worth learning since it’s a valuable skill in today’s job market
So I have a laptop (already configured with Arch), openwrt router, a Pi 5 for Jellyfin with Diet Pi, and a desktop. I want to put Arch with Hyperland on the desktop. It would be cool if I could just use Ansible to perform updates on the Arch Nodes at once. I also have trouble remembering configs and it causes me problems. I’d like to use my other Pi 3s with Arch for Immich, NextCloud ( I have a digital book library), Wikipedia, and etc if possible. Honestly the Pi 5 is not up yet so I could use Ansible for all. I wouldn’t have put Diet Pi on there if I had previously thought about automating Arch with Ansible.
Hell, I think I just talked myself into it.
ansible’s strength comes in the form of infrastructure as code and managing armies of systems; it sounds like it’ll atleast help with the first part since i rely on iac to help me learn and remember configs also.
What is IAC?
it’s an acronym that stands for infrastructure as code.
it’s useful to me because you literally have to write down your configuration as source code to use your infrastructure so it makes it really hard to forget what you have done.