I have a fair amount of servers that I’m (co-)responsible for. To make my life easier I tried serveral managent tools to do the common tasks for all servers as smooth as possible.
The two tools I mainly use at the moment are ansible and cloud-init.

Cloud-init is a great tool to spin up a new server, or to resore an existing one.
ansible is great to do common tasks, like updating servers, installing packages to multiple hosts, but when it comes to thinks like adding a systemd-service to just a view hosts, it never felt natural to me.

This morning I woke up and the radio was not playing. I soon figured out, that my DNS, AdGuard, was for some reason down.

I started with the debugging, even before I had breakfast. Not evan a coffee!

The docker-container for AdGuard was running and reported no error. So I dug deeper and deeper, just to find out, that several containers showed strange behavior. For example did Traefik had som error that it could not find the middlewares, that where configured via environment variables.

M1CH mich /mɪç/ – In German “mich” is the accusative form of the first-person singular personal pronoun. (me; myself)

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