Overview If you need to build your own Postfix, Dovecot, SpamAssassin and Roundcube server for your own mail hosting, look no further than this all in one Ansible script. Just configure the global configuration file, run the script and BAM, you have a fully functioning mail server! This script completes an end to end configuration… Read more »
Automate SSH Key Rotation on Ubuntu with Ansible
Overview Changing your SSH keys is as important as changing your underpants daily, running this script on a frequent basis will ensure access to the servers are changed on a regular basis. Use Ansible to do ssh key rotation in your sleep! Test Bed Ansible control server running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Test server running Ubuntu… Read more »
Ansible – mySQL root password change on Ubuntu
This Ansible script will fully rotate your MySQL root account passwords (or change any MySQL account passwords if you change the script) and implement my.cf so you don’t have to keep putting the password in. This took me a while to figure out, there are Test Bed Ansible control server running Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu… Read more »
Nagios XI – Adding Microsoft Server Services via API
When automating server provisioning you might be considering implementing Nagios for monitoring servers and services as part of the build process. Apart from the help section of Nagios console giving some hints on how to interact with the API, there isn’t much else to go on so I’m sharing my learnings on how to do… Read more »
Blocking Postfix traffic using Fail2ban
So if you are reading this then you have probably seen what appears to be every bot in China connecting to your Postfix server to attempt anything from relaying to auth attacking. Well, have I got the solution for you! Now before you implement this, I will warn you, this is very restrictive, it doesn’t… Read more »