I have this nomad cluster running on some spare devices for a while now. Serving my plane spotting setup, dns setup, mqtt bridge and some other services I experiment with throughout the years. Until today I've always relied on the ip addresses to point my browser and other services towards the different services. For my DNS setup I even had to pin the jobs towards specific hardware using meta data.

But I've always wanted to implement a proxy in between so I could rely on DNS names instead. This would also increase the flexibility of my DNS setup since for …

In this article I'll try to describe how I use vagrant in my daily tasks as an operations dude as well as I deployed it at one of our customers to help the developers focusing on the coding part rather than the operations part.

Vagrant

Since the beginning of my career at inuits I'm using vagrant almost everyday. If I got payed every time I spin up a box I could have bought that tesla already some years ago! But unfortunately I'm not :)

For almost 99% of the use cases I use this nifty tool it's related to puppet. Writing …