Certbot certificates with Scaleway DNS challenge

If you’re running a homelab behind a NAT or a firewall, exposing port 80/443 for the classic HTTP‑01 challenge is often impossible. That’s exactly the situation I ran into when I started consolidating my services on a private network. The good news? Let’s Encrypt also supports DNS‑01 validation, which lets you prove domain ownership by creating a temporary TXT record. Since my zones live on Scaleway DNS, I tweaked the original geerlingguy/ansible-role-certbot to talk to Scaleway’s API out‑of‑the‑box. The result is the ansible‑role‑certbot‑scaleway role. ...

March 8, 2026 · 3 min · 494 words · Alexandre

My findings at FOSEM 2025

This weekend I was at FOSEDM and I discovered some awesome projects and in this article I’m going to share them with you. Documentation Vale A markup-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind. https://github.com/errata-ai/vale Doc-detective Doc Detective is an open-source documentation testing framework that makes it easy to keep your docs accurate and up-to-date. https://github.com/doc-detective/doc-detective mgmt-config Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management! https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt Antora A documentation toolchain that helps technical writing teams create, manage, collaborate on, remix, and publish documentation sites sourced from a variety of versioned content repositories. ...

February 6, 2025 · 2 min · 222 words · Alexandre