Bryan Vest

Morning Dev Work Paused; Time to Head to The 9-5

Some mornings, the lab work flows effortlessly, and other times, it’s

I Got tired of Manually Destroying VMs, So I Automated It

Proxmox makes spinning up virtual machines easy, but when working in an

Finally Got the Automated Ansible VM Deployment Working

Converting a Base Ubuntu Image Before creating a VM template, we needed

Slight Shift

Alright, quick shift in priorities. Originally, I was deep in the weeds

Build CodexMCP: A Collaboration Between Human and AI

CodexMCP is more than just an open-source ISP operations platform—it’s

Locking Down Configs: Becoming One with the System

Now that the framework for automation is in place, it's

Building CodexMCP: The Raw Process Behind the Vision

From here on out this blog will be a live, unfiltered look

Automating Proxmox VM Hardware Discovery for cloud-init Migration

Introduction As we prepare to migrate our virtual machine infrastructure to a

Querying Proxmox VMs via API: Troubleshooting and Success

Introduction Proxmox offers a powerful API for managing virtual machines, but getting

Automating OpenSearch Dashboards & Grafana Deployment with Ansible

Overview Setting up monitoring and search interfaces manually is inefficient when working

Automating Network Configuration with VyOS: Static DHCP for OpenSearch Nodes

One of the biggest inefficiencies when working on infrastructure projects is repeating

Enabling Passwordles Sudo in Ansible: Lessons from the Field

When working with Ansible in a new environment, I ran into a