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When preparing for the holidays, I’m a big fan of digital decorations- which use a projector and special videos to “decorate” a surface or create various spe...
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Ansible job reports with Jinja + HTML
TLDR: If you need an Ansible playbook to generate a clean-looking HTML report of the tasks it performed, check out this template for some ideas.
Tracking deployment and maintenance activity in time series
We use a variety of tools to collect and visualize data about our infrastructure: Telegraf for data collection, InfluxDB for metrics storage, and Grafana for...
The XY Problem, or how to stay out of tech support purgatory
Have you ever been on the giving or receiving end of a marathon troubleshooting session? One that kept everyone going in circles for days, until someone fina...
Using Ansible to audit configuration drift in a brownfield environment
When adopting tool like Ansible for configuration management, one big challenge is that you are often starting in a brownfield environment- one that is alrea...