Bryan Vest

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

Building the Core

Technical Overview of the ISP Testbed Network Architecture The testbed is structured

The Last Generation To See The World As It Was, As It Is, and As It Will Be

The river moves slowly at the bend, where the banks have deepened

The Madness Of The Hunt

There’s a moment in every deep-dive—somewhere between the INVITE and

TCP/IP Explained in a Old West Story

The plains stretched out, dust rising under the noonday sun as a

Introducing CodexMCP: The Way Operations Data Should Be

Where It All Began With over 20 years of experience in rural

Thales: The GPT That Knows That It Knows Nothing

There’s a line I’ve come to appreciate in my role

The Ashes of Progress (Fiction)

The collapse did not come all at once, though people would say

LOGG Stack Name Pivot

Names are a funny thing. They start simple, born out of a