Ansible
Ansible - AWX 2/2
Last week, we installed AWX. It is one of the Open Source upstream developments for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In the second part of this article, we will explore the UI and add our first workload to AWX.
Ansible
Ansible is IT automation, made simple.
Ansible
Ansible - AWX (1/2)
So, you wrote your first playbooks, played with collections and command line tools, and you consider to have a UI for Ansible?
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Ansible - Console
With Python, you can just open a shell and quickly try out some code in a so-called REPL console. Guess what, you can do the same with Ansible. Browse your inventory, and even remote file systems in an interactive shell with ansible-console.
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Ansible - Vault
I have an Ansible playbook and want to set a password for my brand-new MariaDB instance. Do I need a secret management system like Hashicorp Vault, Bitwarden or something else like gopass?
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Spotlight - ARA records Ansible
Do you use Ansible? Maybe even in a pipeline or across teams? Chances are high that you might want to track your changes and last runs in a nice overview with ARA. Let's check out the nifty tool and investigate how it can help you with keeping on top.
Featuring
Featuring - Luca Berton
Luca is the brain behind awesome projects like Ansible Pilot and AI liberator. He also wrote a couple of books and is present on many community events. Let's find out what motivates Luca to be such a strong part of the community, maybe take a peek behind the scenes and learn about him as a person.
Ansible
Spotlight - Steampunk Spotter (Ansible)
Ansible is easy, simple, and powerful, right? Sure, and it is a pain to get it right. There are various tools that are meant to help you with Ansible. Let's take a look at Steampunk Spotter, a quality assurance tool, that makes it easy to improve your Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections.
Ansible
Spotlight - Ansible Semaphore
Ansible is a simple, yet proven way to automate your server configuration, cloud deployments and many other things. Yet, most people know Ansible on the command line, which is perfectly fine for CI/CD or if you like to work with text.
Conference
Ansible - Community Day Berlin
Yesterday was the Ansible Community Day in Berlin. I have to say, it was a blast. Meeting the community, talking about all kind of tech-thingies (technical term) and connecting with experts is something I really enjoy.
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Ansible - Notify the right way
Ansible can trigger tasks based on the execution of other tasks. This feature is known as handlers or notifies. Many examples use this feature in the most minimal way possible, and therefore the power of handlers is pretty much unknown.
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Ansible - Collections 2/2 (developing)
In the last part of "Ansible - Collection", I talked the reason and usage of collections. Now, let's see how you can create your own collection. Believe me or not, this is easier than creating a bunch of roles and playbooks like it was done in the past.
Ansible
Ansible - Collections 1/2 (Usage)
In the past, and especially on the Chemnitz Linux Days, I was asked about Ansible Collections, a lot. It seems like this topic is somewhat complicated and still unknown. Let's take a look at collections, build one, and showcase how it can make your development easier than ever.
IoT
IoT/Edge - Fedora + Ansible + Podman
When it comes to IoT/Edge computing, you have to consider one very special paradigm: "Everything is pull-only". Ansible and Podman can make this work, and we can build a device, that is configured via a Git repository.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes - k3s on AlmaLinux
In some past articles, I talked about Kubernetes and how to get started. Minikube is awesome for local development, but what about Kubernetes on small environments? k3s is one of the easiest ways to deploy and run a Kubernetes instance, which can also be used to create high available clusters.
Fedora
Fedora - Home Server (Application Dashboard)
Our home server can host a couple of applications now. But, remembering the different addresses, ports, and services seems somewhat wrong. In this article, we will solve this situation by deploying a dashboard, that provides links to all our applications.
Fedora
Fedora - Home Server (File, Calendar, Contact Sync)
In the last article, we created a Git server, running in Podman. The deployment was done with Ansible. The article before was about some central infrastructure. This time, let's see how we can have our own File, Calendar, and Contact sync. Yes, we will deploy Nextcloud!