Automation is about getting things done, without actually doing them. You can automate everything from server deployments, to updates, publishing blogs or generating a diet plan for your week.
Ansible
Ansible is a quite simple and powerful automation tool. You can configure servers, switches, firewalls, cloud providers and much more. One essential thing needs to be considered, if you start using Ansible: "How to tell Ansible everything it needs to know about the infrastructure?"
Vagrant
Vagrant provides an easy and powerful way to deploy local machines for development and testing. You can use Ansible or Podman and Docker to provision complete use cases on the machines, too.
Ansible
Managing servers with Ansible is a common task. But you can also automate the setup of your own workstation. Setting a wallpaper, installing software, managing repositories and more can be done with Ansible.
Vagrant
Vagrant is a powerful tool, that can help to create and manage VMs on different operating systems. Very often you will need to add more software to these VMs or test your new web project. This can be achieved with provisioners. In this article, I will tackle file and shell provisioners.
Ansible
Today, the second "Ansible Anwendertreffen" was held online. The conference is a gathering of professionals working with Ansible, in German language.
Ansible
Ansible is all about playbooks. In the "Ansible - Getting Started" article, we already had a very brief look at our first playbook. In this article, I will explain the structure of playbooks and provide some best practices in writing playbooks.
Ansible
Ansible is a powerful automation tool for servers, network, cloud, containers and more. You don't even need to write a playbook to use it. And sometimes, you shouldn't write a playbook for simple tasks. Ansible ad-hoc commands can be used whenever you want to automate simple steps.
Ansible
"Ansible is automation made simple", but that's it? Not really! The Ansible ecosystem is quite huge. It provides graphical UIs, tracing, testing and much more.
Ansible
The Ansible Contributor Summit is a full day of working sessions with the Ansible community team and contributors in the community. I was able to attend the conference today. I just left it some minutes ago and wanted to share my experience and some content from the conference.
Vagrant
Vagrant by Hashi Corp enables users to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments. It is basically Virtualization configuration in a single file. This guide will enable you to install and use Vagrant for simple tasks.
Ansible
Ansible is an OpenSource automation tool, that makes it very easy to automate workflows and has a strong focus on being simple and easy. This article describes how you can get started with Ansible and why you should.
Automation
Automation is a thing, that is considered one key qualification when it comes to IT skills. But automation is not only for IT departments, it can be helpful in almost all work areas.
Ansible
Ansible 3.0.0 was released today and marks an important milestone for the Ansible project. 3.0.0 marks the end of the Ansible restructuring process and sets a mark for future content deliveries of Ansible.