HAProxy HAProxy Odyssey: From NetScaler to BGP Anycast From cutting cost-heavy Citrix nets to mastering BGP Anycast, my HAProxy journey shows how resilience, security, and automation evolve. Stephane Thirion 23 Feb 2026 · 3 min read
DevOps The Perfect Patch Management Duo: PatchMon + Ansible AWX Learn how PatchMon and Ansible AWX work together to create a complete patch management solution with visibility and automation - managing 21 servers with 95% less effort. Stephane Thirion 4 Feb 2026 · 9 min read
Ansible Automating Infrastructure Updates with Ansible AWX: A Complete Guide Managing system updates across multiple servers can be a time-consuming and error-prone task. In this article, I'll walk you through building a complete automated patch management solution using Ansible AWX Stephane Thirion 3 Feb 2026 · 8 min read
HAProxy Securing Internal Services: Using HAProxy ACLs and AdGuard Home DNS Rewrites Learn how to restrict sensitive services like monitoring dashboards and admin panels to your internal network using HAProxy access control lists combined with AdGuard Home DNS rewrites giving your users friendly domain names without exposing services to the internet. Stephane Thirion 7 Jan 2026 · 4 min read
HomeAssistant Home Assistant + HAProxy: Fixing Add-on Access Blocked by X-Frame-Options Article written following real debugging on production infrastructure. Configuration tested with HAProxy 2.8.15 and Home Assistant 2024.12 since I had this issue for some times. Stephane Thirion 10 Dec 2025 · 4 min read
BitLocker Hyper-V 2016 - Add-VMTPM issue Hello folks, This week I worked with a client to implement BitLocker on guest machines from a Hyper-V host Server 2016. As you certainly know, Microsoft has added a great Rodolphe Herpeux 28 Oct 2017 · 3 min read
Certificate Active Directory Certificate Services [Part2] In my post Active Directory Certificate Services [Part1], i explain to you the différents informations you need before you run an installation of PKI. Today in this new post, i Rodolphe Herpeux 5 Oct 2017 · 8 min read