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Ansible is a powerful automation tool that helps us manage infrastructure, services, and databases. However, managing sensitive data such as passwords, keys, and other secrets can be challenging. Ansible Vault is a feature that provides a way to encrypt and store sensitive information within Ansible playbooks and inventory files. Ansible Vault has two modes: full file encryption: the whole contents of the file is encrypted, the type of content doesn’t matter; value encryption: a string value in a yaml file is encrypted....

Introduction In Adjust we are creating new data types for PostgreSQL, in order to make handling of data easier for us, but also sometimes to save some space. Many of them are written using the C language. Here are some of the more important extensions for us: istore: it is an integer based hstore. In istore both keys and values are represented and stored as integers. pg-base36: a base36 extension, which implements a base36 binary-to-text encoding algorithm....

In our infrastructure, we mostly use Gentoo for our servers. For anyone who doesn’t know Gentoo: this Linux distribution compiles packages on the server. Upgrades take a bit more time, but on the other hand the installation can be adjusted to specific requirements: need debug symbols on a dev or staging platform? No problem, compile them in. Want to optimize an application? Change the compile parameters and recompile once: done. Like with pre-compiled packages, this approach has ups and downs....