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Some notes on how to encrypt sensitive data in SaltStack pillar files, e.g. to commit them to source code repositories.

The password manager "pass" is in Ubuntu's repository, but the version on 14.04 is quite old and does not support e.g. the "find" command ("pass find somesite.com", where "somesite.com" is in a subfolder of the password store).

When creating a Google Compute Engine instance from a publicly shared image which is not in your own project nor one of the default projects - such as FreeBSD - the image-project can be specified on the gcloud command line. Here's how to do the same when using salt-cloud instead of gcloud:

Here's how I configured my girlfriend's Vera to shutdown her (Windows-based) HTPC when a certain scene gets triggered:

Just some notes-to-self on how to compile and install tarsnap and acts on Ubuntu 14.04 and its derivatives.