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Hands-on Ansible, using two DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplets

Today I’m wrapping my head around a build tool called Ansible, used for deploying machines in a scriptable, repeatable manner. Follow along as I step through an excellent tutorial from DigitalOcean, applying what I learn to a couple DO Ubuntu VMs… the $5/mo ones - nothing fancy needed!

  Dec 18, 2019 (rev. Sep 16, 2025) ·  4 min

Create a secure, personal instance of DokuWiki on DigitalOcean

I’ve been thinking for awhile now that I wanted to setup a wiki. I wanted something light-weight, with support for uploading images and files. And I wanted to retain control over the data and configuration, as well as encrypt access to it. Here’s how to install DokuWiki on Ubuntu with DigitalOcean.

  Apr 1, 2018 (rev. Sep 16, 2025) ·  9 min