infrastructure

Ansible-Lint in Air-Gapped Environments: Offline Setup Guide

Using Ansible-Lint in Air-Gapped Environments: Best Practices and Troubleshooting When managing infrastructure in air-gapped environments—where systems are isolated from the internet for security purposes—teams often encounter challenges related to software dependencies that require online access.

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AI DevOps Ansible Community on Skool

Luca Berton Launches the AI DevOps Ansible Community on Skool Luca Berton, a seasoned expert in AI, DevOps, and cloud technologies, has officially launched the AI DevOps Ansible Community on Skool, bringing together a global network of professionals passionate about automation, cloud infrastructure, and career development in the world of DevOps.

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Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024 – Future of AI, Cloud, & Automation

On October 16, 2024, the Red Hat Summit: Connect will be held at the NBC Congress Centrum in Nieuwegein, Netherlands.

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Generate Clean YAML Output from Ansible Facts

Ansible is a powerful tool for automating tasks, but when working with dynamically generated data, such as Ansible facts, it can sometimes be tricky to produce clean, well-formatted output.

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Ansible London Meetup 2024 Recap: Highlights and Insights

On September 23rd, 2024, I had the honor of presenting at the Ansible London Meetup, held at Dell Technologies in London.

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Ansible Development: A Comprehensive Guide

Ansible Development: A Comprehensive Guide Ansible is an open-source automation tool developed by Red Hat that enables IT professionals to automate tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, and task automation.

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Learn Ansible book technical review by Luca Berton

Introduction Learn how to write and run Ansible Playbooks, from the basics to launching complex multi-tier applications across public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

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Knee: The Ansible-Powered CLI for Seamless Infrastructure Automation

Introduction In today’s fast-paced tech environment, repetitive tasks like software installations and system configurations are not just time-consuming but also prone to errors, leading to inefficiencies and operational delays.

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Automating Dynamic Time Date Facts with Ansible

Introduction In the realm of automation and infrastructure management, Ansible stands out for its simplicity and power, enabling IT professionals to automate a wide array of tasks efficiently.

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Automate Text Capitalization with Ansible Playbooks

Introduction In the realm of IT automation, Ansible stands out as a powerful tool for configuring, managing, and deploying infrastructure.

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Efficient Automation with Ansible

Efficient Automation with Ansible: A Practical Guide for DevOps Professionals

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How to Break a String Over Multiple Lines with Ansible and YAML

Welcome to another episode of Ansible Pilot! I’m Luca Berton, and today we’ll explore a handy technique in Ansible – breaking strings over multiple lines using YAML.

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Running a Playbook with JetPorch: A Quick Guide

JetPorch, the Jet Enterprise Professional Orchestrator, is a powerful IT automation platform designed for Linux and Mac systems.

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Ansible troubleshooting - Error only-builtins

Avoid Non-Builtin Actions in Your Ansible Playbooks In the realm of Ansible playbooks, maintaining consistency and simplicity is key to a successful automation strategy.

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Ansible troubleshooting - Error run-once

Understanding the Ansible Playbook Error: run-once When developing Ansible playbooks, it’s crucial to ensure efficient execution and adhere to best practices.

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Ansible troubleshooting - Error meta-runtime

Introduction The meta-runtime rule in Ansible checks the requires_ansible key in the meta/runtime.

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Crafting and Publishing Your Custom Ansible Collection on Automation Hub

Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of automation, creating customized solutions becomes paramount.

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Creating a New Ansible Collection: A Step-by-Step Guide

Introduction Ansible Collections are a powerful way to organize and distribute your Ansible content, including modules, plugins, roles, and more.

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Creating an Application Load Balancer with Ansible in AWS

Amazon Application Load Balancer (ALB) As applications grow in complexity, they require more sophisticated infrastructure to ensure high availability and scalability.

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Effortlessly Create AWS IAM Users and Store their Access Keys with Ansible

Amazon Identity and Access Management (Amazon IAM) Amazon IAM (Identity and Access Management) is a web service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables you to manage access to AWS resources for users and groups within your organization.

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Create AWS S3 Bucket Using Ansible: Step-by-Step Guide

S3 Bucket AWS S3 bucket is a popular object storage service that offers a cost-effective and scalable solution to store and retrieve large amounts of data.

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Getting Started with Amazon EC2 Instances

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform that offers a wide range of services to customers, including computing, storage, and databases, among others.

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Creating an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set using Ansible

Creating an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set using Ansible In the world of cloud computing, scalability is a critical requirement for many organizations.

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Creating an Azure Virtual Network with Ansible Playbook

Creating an Azure Virtual Network with Ansible Playbook As organizations continue to adopt cloud technologies, the need for automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management becomes more important than ever.

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Automate EC2 Creation with Ansible: YAML Playbook Demo

Introduction This is an Ansible playbook written in YAML format that automates the creation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances and collects the host data.

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