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  • Buddhism, more specifically vajrayana.

    I think it’s better understood amongst practitioners that if you don’t walk the path then you’re not really a Buddhist.  I know this is true of pretty much all religions but there’s no, what I call, John 3:16 clause.  There are many Christian’s who think just believing in Jesus.  This may be true in other religions too but I’m from Christianity.  Buddhism gave me a different perspective on what it means to believe though.  To believe in a teacher is to follow and apply those teachings through every aspect existence.  Believe or take refuge in the teaching, not the vehicle that delivered that teaching.
















  • It sounds like you’re trying to learn but have an “all or nothing” mentality to going about it. Nothing is mastered all of a sudden and expecting mastery out the gate is a recipe for burn out. If you’re goal is absolute perfection then you’ll never even start.

    Go through the online docs and training resources first to gain an understanding of how to assemble playbooks without a direct implementation target attached.

    Once you have a sense of what Ansible is and what it can do for you, pick something small to do for yourself. For example, create a playbook that sets up nginx for a single purpose.  When there are a 100 different ways to do something, you’ll never do it right. You’ll do it acceptably, then you’ll do it again better and then you’ll do it again more flexibly, etc.  If you know or pick up Python then you’ll start being able to dive into custom modules and plugins.

    A toolkit is something you build over time. You build it over time because it’s impossible to know what you’ll need before you start. If you do end up pulling together a toolkit that you think it appropriate and complete before you start working then you’ll have a mess of configurations that are not applicable and mostly inappropriate that you’ll end up debugging forever.

    Start small. Start where you are.


  • Russia’s showing signs of desperation anyhow which is why they’re trying to push through an agreement.  They can’t debase the currency much further, they don’t have the reserves or the GDP.  Ukraine is in more the position strength here as they’ve spend their time building alliances which has been aided by Russian actions strengthening the resolve of Europeans.