Given a 3rd party Debian package repository such as apt.postgresql.org how do you make sure, that the packages respectively the services that are provided by the packages, such as a Postgresql DB server, get automatically updated?

apt-dater (package available) is a really handy tool to update Debian packages on a large fleet of servers.

You install and configure it, add your company’s hosts into it and then you can keep an eye on outstanding package updates and update the whole fleet with a few key strokes.

But can you manage company servers and separately from that your own machines with apt-dater?

How can I run my ansible playbook outside of a container and have the taks executed inside the container?

Once in a while, we have to create PDF reports from database queries. In the past we used either JasperReports, a heavyweight Java-based reporting engine, or wrote some Python code using a library like FPDF. But about a year ago, a new kid on the block caught my eye: Typst.

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