SSL certificate installation on the Ubiquiti Unifi controller

As a lot of users, I got tired of the SSL certificate error page every time I visit the controller’s page. Unfortunately, Ubiquiti doesn’t provide an “easy” upload functionality through the web interface. But they do provide some documentation, which seems easy and quick enough. Or so I thought. Ubiquiti documentation You can find the … Continue reading SSL certificate installation on the Ubiquiti Unifi controller

Setup Let’s Encrypt to Secure Your Website

If you don’t know what Let’s Encrypt is, let me briefly explain. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated and open Certificate Authority (CA) that provides an easy way to obtain and install free TLS/SSL certificates. As mentioned on their website, the key principles behind Let’s Encrypt are: Free: Anyone who owns a domain name can … Continue reading Setup Let’s Encrypt to Secure Your Website

Testing Ansible Roles on Multiple Operating Systems with Docker and Semaphore

NOTE: This article was initialy written for the SemaphoreCi community page. Introduction In a previous article, we wrote about testing Ansible roles directly against Semaphore. This is great when you are targeting the same operating system as your continuous integration server, but what to do if you you need to target other operating systems as … Continue reading Testing Ansible Roles on Multiple Operating Systems with Docker and Semaphore

Testing Ansible Roles with Travis CI

Ansible is a great config management tool. Unfortunately I lacked the time of writing a bit more about minding, except of my 2 previous posts (Getting started with configuration management: Ansible and Configuration management with Ansible: Playbooks & Execution ) Not that I haven’t done anything new on that front. I’m currently using / maintaining some … Continue reading Testing Ansible Roles with Travis CI

Set recursive permissions on only files or directories

Changing permissions can be tricky, because either way, permissions are on of the corner stones of security. It could be that you want to change permissions recursively on all folders, but not on files, and vice versa. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t take that into account. So here’s a quick tip on how to achieve … Continue reading Set recursive permissions on only files or directories