Doug Pearson
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$ Building, automating, and self-hosting - from Kennedy Space Center to animation studios to my own rack|
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Zabbix PSK Encryption: Why Ansible Was Breaking It on Every Run
Ansible's password lookup plugin was silently regenerating Zabbix PSK keys every time Semaphore ran the playbook, causing agents to lose encrypted connectivity. Here is the root cause and the fix.
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