Bryan Vest

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

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