2025-07-12 //
2 min read
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#ansible
#devops
#tailscale
There’s an oft-quoted phrase in the cloud/DevOps space.
Treat infrastructure as cattle, not pets.
To me, the advice is broad and emblematic for a lot of modern practices. Prefer disposable containers over long-lived hosts. Build infrastructure that scales horizontally to accomodate demand. Design architectures where components can be swapped out on the fly.
I thought I’d recap some recent changes to how I provision and manage this blog - addressing a few places where hostnames were hardcoded for convenience.
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Discovering a tradeoff Tailscale makes for convenience
2022-09-25 //
4 min read
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#tailscale
I’ve been trying out Tailscale recently to simplify networking between my devices. With the beta launch of Tailscale SSH offering the ability to connect to my DigitalOcean droplet without SSH keypairs, I was eager to incorporate it into my setup.
Said setup is a matter for another time, but with Tailscale SSH enabled for my droplet I was able to remote in with a plain ssh nicholas@gandra-dee!
However, there was a visible half-second delay when entering commands. While not a dealbreaker, it made each session a frustrating experience!
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