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.
Open Source is more than just some cost-free software, where you can read the code. This category is about Open Source in general, tools, software, news, movements and Open Source projects.
Ansible
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
So, you wrote your first playbooks, played with collections and command line tools, and you consider to have a UI for Ansible?
Podman
Portainer is an application, providing a web UI for management of Docker and Kubernetes. It is simple, yet powerful, and easy to use. But, what about Portainer on Podman? In this article, I will give a quick guide, how you can get it running and start your first containers.
AlmaLinux
I am in the middle of setting up my home lab, but also working on a project, named beby.cloud. In both cases, I want to do the initial setup automatically on a Raspberry Pi system. Fortunately, AlmaLinux OS supports Cloud-Init, so we can handle this easily.
Linux
Lot's has changed since my last articles about Red Hat, CentOS, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux. This is not your typical "Rocky vs. Alma" article. Instead, I want to give my take on how the "family tree" looks like today and how things are going.
Ansible
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.
Podman
Have you built a container image on your workstation, just to find out that it doesn't work on your Raspberry Pi? Maybe your project considers publishing a software for arm64 and amd64, so your users can run it on different platforms? No worries, Podman got you covered!
Linux
Wait, there is a GNOME OS? Yes, and it is around since GNOME 3.38, already. Should you use it? Is it a good idea to run it daily? What is different to Fedora or Ubuntu? And why isn't every GNOME enthusiast hopping on it like on KDE Neon?
Development
How do you prove that the last commit was really made by you? How to audit if your contributors are really themselves and not somebody with stolen account data? And as a user, how can you validate that code is coming from a trusted source, when it is just downloaded from the internet?
Ansible
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?
Linux
I promised these articles for quite some time. Let's finally start with some systemd. Hated, loved, ranted about, praised ... Well, let's say systemd is at least controversial. Still, it is built-in in the majority of Linux distributions. But why is it so? How does it work?
Podman
Podman is the daemonless drop-in Docker replacement and has exceptional systemd support. With Quadlets, this support became even better and the hassle to work with systemd unit files is gone. It was never this easy to define your containers as systemd services.
Hardware
If you use Linux on the Laptop, you might have some issues here or there with warranties or even proper support from a vendor. But, there are some vendors out there, that do support Linux and some of them even ship their machines with Linux.
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
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.
Podman
Podman is the daemonless, rootless drop-in replacement for Docker. Furthermore, you can manage containers on a remote machine without connecting to it first. With Podman's remote capabilities, this is just a matter of configuration files.