Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
willurd
/ web-servers.md
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August 17, 2025 18:54
Big list of http static server one-liners
tristanfisher
/ Ansible-Vault how-to.md
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May 27, 2025 10:11
A short tutorial on how to use Vault in your Ansible workflow. Ansible-vault allows you to more safely store sensitive information in a source code repository or on disk.
I've been using a lot of Ansible lately and while almost everything has been great, finding a clean way to implement ansible-vault wasn't immediately apparent.
What I decided on was the following: put your secret information into a vars file, reference that vars file from your task, and encrypt the whole vars file using ansible-vault encrypt.
Let's use an example: You're writing an Ansible role and want to encrypt the spoiler for the movie Aliens.
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