https://mallettedavid.com/posts/ Recent content in Posts on David's Space Hugo en-ca Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:20:09 -0400 https://mallettedavid.com/posts/switching-to-ansible/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:20:09 -0400 https://mallettedavid.com/posts/switching-to-ansible/ <p>How I turned away from Ansible, and then eventually came back around to it.</p> <h2 id="giving-ansible-another-try">Giving Ansible another try</h2> <p>A while ago, probably a year (okay so not <em>that</em> long ago), I began taking CaC and IaC more seriously in my home lab. It has grown from 1 server to 3 servers now, plus 2 VPSes, and some servers I manage for friends. It was time for me to bring everything up to a standard, and that standard was to be defined with a tool such as Ansible. I&rsquo;ll admit when I first started working with it I was unhappy with the way it functioned. It felt limited and I still wasn&rsquo;t in the mindset of defining a configuration to achieve. I was still operating under a task-based configuration rather than state-based.</p> https://mallettedavid.com/posts/my-first-post/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:15:18 -0400 https://mallettedavid.com/posts/my-first-post/ <p>I have come full circle. My very first site on this domain (if I remember correctly) was based on <a href="https://gohugo.io">Hugo</a>. Now after years of playing around and experimenting with different languages, builders, generators, etc&hellip; I have settled back onto Hugo once again. This time I am determined to better understand how it functions, and also I wanted to learn Go and this seems like a natural SSG to use. I have always preferred static site generators and I am so happy to be back.</p>