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Ansible — agentless config & EDA in one

Ansible runs idempotent playbooks over SSH/WinRM (no agents), plus Event-Driven Ansible (rulebooks) reacts to webhooks/Kafka/AWX events to auto-remediate. Use it for VM config, Day-2 ops, and incident actions; pair with Terraform (infra) and ArgoCD/Flux (K8s GitOps).

Jump to Ansible group → Official docs EDA rulebooks

Calculators & Decoders

Twelve interactive utilities — all run locally in your browser.

IPv4 CIDR

CIDR

Split into N subnets

Contains IP?

IPv6 CIDR

IPv6 / prefix

Common IPv6 prefixes

/64  ← single LAN (default)
/56  ← 256 LANs (typical site)
/48  ← 65 536 LANs (enterprise)
fc00::/7  ULA (private)
fe80::/10 link-local
ff00::/8  multicast

SLO / Error budget

SLO target (%) Window (days)

Burn-rate alerting (MWMBR)

Google SRE Workbook §5 — multi-window multi-burn-rate.

Availability table

JWT decoder

Token

Base64

Plain Base64

URL & Hex

Plain URL-encoded Hex

Cron expression

Expression (5 or 6 fields)

Common patterns (click to load)

Regex Builder — guided generator

1. Action

2. Match type

3. Scope

4. Case

5. Multiline (^/$ per line)

6. Dotall (. matches newline)

Generated regex

Tester (live)

Pattern Flags Test text

YAML

JSON

ID generator

Hash

Timestamp

Unix epoch ISO 8601

Color converter

Hex

Architecture Designer

Two ways in: a guided wizard that builds a guaranteed-renderable diagram from a few choices, or the free editor for hand-tuning. Both pre-validate Mermaid before render.

1 · Pick kind 2 · Pick blueprint 3 · Customize 4 · Validate & render

Step 1 — What do you want to draw?

Step 2 — Pick a starting blueprint

Step 3 — Customize

Step 4 — Validate & render

Templates ()

GUI Builder Wizard

Step-through planning for any new infra / software / automation project. Walks you through the priority order architects use, then outputs a tailored checklist + recommended diagram + commands.

Quick Reference

CIDR table, ports, availability matrix — at-a-glance.

CIDR / Subnet table (IPv4)

Well-known ports

Availability table

Private / reserved IP ranges

RFC1918 private:    10.0.0.0/8     172.16.0.0/12     192.168.0.0/16
RFC6598 CGNAT:      100.64.0.0/10
RFC3927 link-local: 169.254.0.0/16
Loopback:           127.0.0.0/8
Multicast:          224.0.0.0/4
Reserved:           240.0.0.0/4

IPv6 link-local:    fe80::/10
IPv6 ULA:           fc00::/7
IPv6 multicast:     ff00::/8
IPv6 loopback:      ::1/128
IPv6 global unicast 2000::/3

Cloud subnet reserved IPs

AWS VPC subnet:  5 reserved per subnet (.0 network, .1 router, .2 DNS, .3 future, .last broadcast)
                 Subnet sizes: /16 (largest) → /28 (smallest, 11 usable hosts)
Azure VNet:      5 reserved per subnet (.0 .1 .2 .3 .last)
                 Special subnets must be named: GatewaySubnet, AzureFirewallSubnet, AzureBastionSubnet
GCP VPC:         No 5-reserved rule. 4 reserved: network (.0), gateway (.1), .2nd-to-last, broadcast (.last)
                 Subnets are regional. Primary + secondary IP ranges (alias IP).
K8s typical:     Pod CIDR  10.244.0.0/16  (262 142 IPs — sufficient for ~250 nodes × 256 pods)
                 Service CIDR 10.96.0.0/12 (1 048 574 IPs — typically /16 is fine: 10.96.0.0/16)

AI Assistant

Chat with any OpenAI-compatible LLM (Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, BML API). Ask about syntax, when/where to use a command, or to explain a snippet — answers are grounded in this cheatsheet via RAG.

Engine

Temperature Max tokens RAG: top-K snippets 0 disables retrieval grounding. Stream tokens (remote only) System prompt

Local engine: downloads a GGUF model into browser cache and runs it on-device — no network after first load. Works on Android & iOS.
Remote engine — CORS: for Ollama, start it with OLLAMA_ORIGINS="*" ollama serve. For llama.cpp use --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080. From phone: point endpoint at your host's LAN IP (e.g. http://192.168.0.107:11434/v1).

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My Account

Profile, quota, and password. Settings (model, engine, behavior) live in the admin panel.

Admin Queue

Review pending account requests, approve or deny, and copy a one-shot activation URL to send to the requester. Admin-only — gated by your JWT role.

This will create a user account in status pending and mint a one-shot activation token (valid 7 days). You'll receive a copy-able URL to send to the requester.

The request will be marked denied. Please add a short reason — it's stored in the audit log.

Reason · required · optional

Decision recorded

Lab · Firewall Rules

Single canonical rule schema → instant codegen for GCP firewall, Cloudflare WAF, iptables, nftables, and Kubernetes NetworkPolicy. Includes a "would this allow X?" simulator with first-match-wins priority logic.

Preset:

rules

Edit rule

Simulator — would this flow be allowed?

First-match-wins by ascending priority (lower number = higher precedence, GCP-style). Implicit-deny if nothing matches.

Source IP Dest IP Port Protocol Direction

Cheatsheet

GCP firewall rules — VPC-scoped; lower priority number wins; implicit-deny ingress + implicit-allow egress on default network. --rules=tcp:443 for ports.
Cloudflare — supports ingress only (CDN edge). Use Wireshark-style expressions; combine with cf.threat_score for adaptive blocking.
iptables — first match wins per chain. Always end INPUT/FORWARD with -j DROP for default-deny.
nftables — modern replacement for iptables. Use sets for IP/port lists. nft list ruleset to dump all.
K8s NetworkPolicy — allowlist-only. To get default-deny, apply a NetworkPolicy that selects pods + lists policyTypes but has empty ingress/egress.
Priority order — this lab sorts ascending (GCP/Azure-style). On AWS Security Groups all rules are allow, so "first match wins" doesn't apply — every match permits.

Lab · Secret Rotation

Anatomy of a zero-downtime rotation with a planned overlap window. Walk the timeline phase-by-phase, then read the real GitHub Actions workflow that powers bml-lil-token rotation in this very project.

Rotator timeline

⏱ Overlap window — both tokens valid

`.github/workflows/rotate-bml-lil-token.yml`

Why the overlap window matters

No flapping — without overlap, in-flight requests presenting the old token would 401 the moment you flip. With 1h overlap, every long poller / cron / queue worker gets a graceful handoff.
WIF over SA keys — the workflow auths via Workload Identity Federation; no long-lived service-account JSON in CI secrets to rotate.
VM pulls, CI doesn't push — the API VM polls Secret Manager every 60s. CI never SSHes — fewer egress paths, simpler audit.
Probe before declaring success — T3 hits /health with the new token; if it doesn't go 200 within 5min, rollback fires.
Rollback is automatic — failure between T0–T3 demotes the new version back to -prev and opens a P1 issue with the rotation_id.
Audit by default — every step emits structured logs to Cloud Logging; the rotation_id ties workflow → secret version → API health-probe → revoke job.

Lab · Auth Flow

Run a real register → login → JWT → refresh-rotation → lockout flow against an isolated sandbox. Nothing here touches the real auth surface — your sandbox is wiped after 24h idle, or by the Reset button.

Your sandbox

Per-browser. Wiped 24h idle.

1. Register

Email (just a label here) Password (min 8)

First user in a sandbox becomes admin. Real systems would require a separate activation step.

2. Login

Email Password

Edge cases — try them

JWT decoder (header.payload.signature)

Last lab response

Lab · API Tokens

Mint, list, revoke, and rotate-with-overlap bearer tokens. Same lifecycle pattern as the real bml-lil-token rotator workflow — without touching production secrets.

Mint a token

Label (e.g. ci-deploy-key) Scopes (comma-separated) TTL (seconds, 60–2592000)

Rotation overlap

When you rotate a token, the old one keeps working for the overlap window so deploys and long-running jobs don't break mid-flight. Then it auto-expires.

Overlap (seconds)

Real prod default: 300s — long enough for the next CI run to pull, short enough that a leaked old token has limited reach.

Your tokens ()

Lab · API Auth Schemes

Send pre-built requests with different Authorization schemes — Basic, Bearer (opaque), Bearer (JWT), API key header, mTLS — to /lab/api/echo. The server detects the scheme, redacts the secret, and shows you exactly what arrived. Compare-and-contrast learning, with a static reference table.

Email	Role	Status	Created	Actions

No users.

Email	Role	Used	Remaining	Oldest

No data.

When	Action	Actor	Target	Details

No events.

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Admin sign-in required

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System prompt prefix

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Lab · Firewall Rules

Edit rule

Simulator — would this flow be allowed?

Cheatsheet

Lab · Secret Rotation

Rotator timeline

.github/workflows/rotate-bml-lil-token.yml

Why the overlap window matters

Lab · Auth Flow

1. Register

2. Login

Edge cases — try them

JWT decoder (header.payload.signature)

Last lab response

Lab · API Tokens

Mint a token

Rotation overlap

Your tokens ()

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Auth schemes — when to use what

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