Lately, I’ve been utilizing Ansible to manage Virtual Machines and Linux Containers (LXC) within my Proxmox Virtual Environment. My typical workflow involves spinning up a fresh Alpine, Debian, or Ubuntu host, installing python and enabling root SSH access. Then I use an Ansible playbook to automate creating a new user, adding the user to sudoers, adding my SSH key, and disabling root SSH login. This allows me to have a standard user configuration across all my VMs, as well as only allowing pubkey SSH access to a regular user account for increased security.

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ProtonVPN recently announced they are decommissioning the legacy DNS entries for country-based IP pools like “us.protonvpn.net” which are used in older OpenVPN configuration profiles. If you’re using a newer profile, you’re likely using a fixed IP address instead, so this may not apply to you.

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