Nicholas Whittaker 7/12/2025

Pets have names, livestock is tagged

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The article details a technical improvement to the author's blog infrastructure, moving from a static, 'pet-like' hostname configuration to a dynamic, 'cattle-like' system. Using Tailscale tags to identify machines and generating Ansible inventory groups based on those tags, the author eliminates hardcoded dependencies. This allows for easier scaling, host management, and deployment across multiple machines for a single project.

Pets have names, livestock is tagged

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