Since a few years now I'm a happy Archlinux user. I like their philosophy which was one of the major points why I made the switch back in the days.

I'm not only using it on my laptop, but do have some devices running at home which are configured with it. From a thin client which I use as a docker node through some raspberry pies running ArchlinuxARM.

Since Arch is a rolling update distro there are several updates available throughout the day. To keep on top of them I had to log in on all those devices at least …

recently I started working at a new project where the infra is maintained by ansible. When been asked to write some functionality in a playbook I missed my vagrant puppet setup where I could easily test my puppet code on my local machine.

Due to my previous project I felt like maybe I could use docker for this purpose on the ansible part. So I looked a bit around and stumbled on the docker-ansible github repository of William Yeh. He already did a great job by creating a docker container with ansible preinstalled for a lot of linux distributions.

I …